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The Opera del Vocabolario Italiano was given a mandate in 1964 to create a Historical Dictionary of the Italian Language. The main objective was to provide a tool which would give vital information on the development of the Italian language from its origins to the present day. In 1986 the Center incorporated modern computer technology into the project and this led to a series of decisions which affected the nature and the outcome of the project. This article traces the development of the project, and describes both hardware and software systems used, as well as the nature of the relational database being created and its linguistic applications.
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Ubaldo Ceccoli, doctor of philosophy, is involved in data processing for the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano project. At the Symposium held in December 1989 at the University of Nanterre he presented two papers about the current research at the Centre: “Un Programma per la redazione del vocabolario storico assistita dal calcatore” (with F. Lorenze, V. Pollidori), “L'ampliamento dell'Archivio lessicale dell'Opera del vocabolario: la Banca dati ′800–900 e alcuni risultati in testi non letterari” (with C. Barbarulli, A. Benedetti). He is also involved in the creation of the XIXth and XXth Century Lexical Archives.
The editor would like to thank Mr Keith Worall of the Computing Centre and Professor Wolfram Burghardt of the Department of Modern Languages, both at the University of Western Ontario, for their valuable assistance in the editing of this manuscript.
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Ceccoli, U. The Italian vocabulary center. Comput Hum 24, 363–366 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00186477
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00186477