Part of speech of entry string
nounnoun
verbverb
adjadjective
advadverb
preppreposition
conjconjunction
detdeterminer
partverb particle
auxverbauxiliary verb
pronpronoun
puncpunctuation
otherother pos to be determined by user
Knowledge domain to which lexical/terminological entry is assigned (from Eurodicatom)
agriculturefarming and agriculture
audiovisualaudiovisual
aviationaviation and aerospace
botany/zoologybotany and zoology
budgetbudgets and accounting
chemistrychemistry
constructionconstruction and building
customscustoms, duties
defensedefense
developmentdevelopment
economicseconomics
educationeducation
electrotechnicselectronics
employmenthuman resources, employment
energyenergy
environmentenvironment
eurospeakcommon European language terminology
financefinance
fisheriesfishery science and technology
generalgeneral vocabulary
geologygeology
industryindustry and industrial policy
informaticsinformation technology, programming
insuranceinsurance
lawlaw
mechanicsmechanics
medicinemedicine
miningmining
nuclearnuclear power, nuclear industry
socialsocial science and policy
statisticsstatistics
steelsteel
taxationtaxes
technologygeneral technology
telecomtelecommunications
tradetrade and tariffs
transporttransportation
Refers to the status of the entry string as a product name, trademark, orthographic variant
product-nameproduct name
trademarktrademark
orth-varorthographic variant
ununspecified
Indicates shape or structure of entry string
abbabbreviation
acracronym
sglsingle word
cmpcompound
phrphrase
ununspecified
Further specifies the phrasal entry string
mwmultiword
set-phrfixed, lexicalized phrase
collcollocation
idiomidiom
ununspecified
Indicates status of entry within given lexicon/termbase
wordgeneral vocabulary item
termspecific to non-general domain
conceptconcept
stopwordstopword
ununspecified
Indicates administrative status of an entry relative to a given work environment
newnew entry
ververified
defdefaulted
mtfor MT only
obsobsolete
ununspecified
Indicates grammatical gender.
mmasculine
ffeminine
nneuter
ccommon
ununspecified
Indicates case designation.
nnominative
ggenitive
ddative
aaccusative
objobjective
subjsubjective
loclocative
prpprepositional
instinstrumental
ununspecified
Indicates number.
sgsingular
plplural
sgtsingularetantum
pltpluraletantum
dudual
invarinvariant
ununspecified
Indicates person.
firstfirst person
secsecond person
thirdthird person
ununspecified
Indicates verb tense.
prespresent
pastpast
futfuture
ununspecified
Indicates mood (or mode).
indicindicative
subjsubjunctive
imperimperative
condconditional
supsupine
ununspecified
Indicates verbal aspect.
simpsimple
perfperfective
imperfimperfective
durdurative
habithabitual
iteriterative
ununspecified
Indicates degree type for adjective.
pospositive
compcomparative
supsuperlative
elaelative
ununspecified
Indicates type of auxiliary verb.
haveda
væreda
haveen
been
êtrefr
avoirfr
laisserfr
fairefr
habende
seinde
werdende
lassende
terpt
estarpt
estares
haberes
ununspecified
Describes the general syntactic behavior of the entry string.
cntcountable noun
massmass noun
mass-cntcountable mass noun
propproper noun
collcollective noun
quantquantitative noun
defdefinite noun
indefindefinite noun
recipreciprocal verb
reflreflexive verb
auxauxiliary verb
main-vbmain verb
modalmodal verb
attribattributive adjective
predpredicative adjective
poss-adjpossessive adjective
able-adj-able participle
ppartpast participle
prespartpresent participle
degreeindicates degree, e.g., 'too'
adv-modmodifies adverb
adj-modmodifies adjective
cls-modmodifies clause
np-modmodifies noun phrase
nu-modmodifies numeral
prep-modmodifies preposition
det-modmodifies determiner
quant-modmodifies quantifier
loclocative preposition
dirdirectional preposition
temptemporal preposition
conjconjunction
comp-conjcomparative conjunction
subj-conjsubjunction
def-detdefinite determiner
indef-detindefinite determiner
interr-detinterrogative determiner
poss-detpossessive determiner
rel-detrelative determiner
demonst-detdemonstrative determiner
quant-detquantitative determiner
part-detpartitive determiner
def-prodefinite pronoun
indef-proindefinite pronoun
interr-prointerrogative pronoun
poss-propossessive pronoun
rel-prorelative pronoun
demonst-prodemonstrative pronoun
quant-proquantitative pronoun
pers-propersonal pronoun
part-propartitive pronoun
refl-proreflexive pronoun
wh-proWh-type pronoun
ununspecified
Describes the unmarked positioning of the entry string syntactically.
prenounbefore noun
postnounfollowing noun
preverbbefore main verb
postverbfollowing main verb
cl-initclause-initial
cl-finalclause-final
deg-postdegree adverb after morpheme
deg-predegree adverb before morpheme
prepprepositional to noun head
postppostpositional to noun head
circumpreppreposition in circum position
circumpostppostposition in circum position
ununspecified
Describes the transitivity behaviour of verbs and deverbal nouns
transtransitive
intrintransitive
ditransditransitive
reflreflexive
midmiddle
causcausative
unaccunaccusative intransitive
unergunergative intransitive
ununspecified
The syntactic frame describes the subcategorisation of the entry word/phrase. The
approach taken here adapts and expands on the original OLIF analysis, which was
essentially a slot-grammar approach. The lexicographer builds the frame by
specifying individual frame elements from the slot values table below. (Slot fillers are
implied with many of the slot values, but fillers are language-specific and we don’t
have a formal representation of them for the languages we’re covering – need a
decision here on whether to handle the fillers with OLIF2 or to leave it to the vendors
to construe.)
The syntax for the frame specifies the following conventions:
- the syntactic frame is enclosed in square ( [ ] ) brackets
- slots are separated by commas ( , )
- slots that are or’ed together are enclosed in parentheses and separated
by vertical slashes, e.g., (.|.|.|.|.)
Example of a possible syntactic frame for the English verb WU\:
[ subj, (dobj-opt | dobj-sent-ing-opt | dobj-sent-inf-opt) ]
(Note: Specific prepositions or particles that fill a pp or part slot are specifiable with
the features SUHS and SDUW (description follows).)
subjsubject NP required
subj-sent-optsentential subject optional (e.g., finite clause, infinitive clause, -ing clause, wh-, finite with 'that', 'dass')
subj-imps-optimpersonal subject optional (e.g., "It is raining")
dobjdirect object NP required
dobj-optdirect object NP optional
dobj-sent-optsentential direct object optional (e.g., finite clause, infinitive clause, -ing clause, wh-, finite with 'that', 'dass')
dobj-sent-fin-optfinite clause direct object optional
dobj-sent-inf-optinfinitive clause direct object optional
dobj-sent-ing-opt-ing clause direct object optional
dobj-sent-that-optthat/dass-clause direct object optional
dobj-sent-wh-optwh-clause direct object optional
dobj-comp-opte.g., "They elected him president"
iobjindirect object NP required
iobj-optindirect object NP optional
iobj-sent-optsentential indirect object optional
genobjgenitive object required
genobj-optgenitive object optional
pred-optpredicate nominal (incl.sentential)/predicate adj. optional
vcomp-optsentential verb complement optional (e.g., finite clause, infinitive clause, -ing clause, wh-, finite with 'that', 'dass')
vcomp-fin-optfinite clause verb complement optional
vcomp-inf-optinfinitive clause verb complement optional
vcomp-ing-opt-ing clause verb complement optional
vcomp-that-optthat/dass-clause verb complement optional
vcomp-wh-optwh-clause verb complement optional
partverb particle required
part-optverb particle optional
gencomp-optGenitive phrase optional (e.g., "the book of John", "the reading of the will"
ncomp-optsentential noun complement optional (e.g., finite clause, infinitive clause, -ing clause, wh-, finite with 'that')
ncomp-fin-optfinite clause noun complement optional
ncomp-inf-optinfinitive clause noun complement optional
ncomp-ing-opt-ing clause noun complement optional
ncomp-that-optthat-type clause noun complement optional
ncomp-wh-optwh-clause noun complement optional
adjcomp-optsentential adj complement optional (e.g., finite clause, infinitive clause, -ing clause, wh-, finite with 'that')
adjcomp-fin-optfinite clause adj complement optional
adjcomp-inf-optinfinitive clause adj complement optional
adjcomp-ing-opt-ing clause adj complement optional
adjcomp-that-optthat-type clause adj complement optional
ncomp-wh-optwh-clause adj complement optional
ppprepositional phrase required
pp-optprepositional phrase optional
pp-loclocational/directional prepositional phrase required
pp-loc-optlocational/directional prepositional phrase optional
pp-temptemporal prepositional phrase required
pp-temp-opttemporal prepositional phrase optional
Refers to the biological gender associated with the entry string.
mmasculine
ffeminine
ununspecified
absabstract, e.g., format, rapidity, poverty, type
abs-agabstract agent, e.g., efficiency, cause, method, goal, event
abs-gengeneral abstract concept, e.g., truth, idea, justice
abs-nonagnon-verbal abstract, e.g., shape, condition, class, feature
abs-nonag-orignon-verbal abstract origin, e.g., reserve, lineage, origin
animanimate, e.g., manager, committee, subscriber, buyer
anim-anianimal, e.g., deer, bacteria, gnat, weasel
anim-humhuman, e.g., employee, scientist, Professor, Mrs.
anim-hum-funcoffice, title, e.g., Dr., President, General
anim-hum-pnhuman proper name, e.g., John, Mr. Smith, Marie
anim-socsocial institution, e.g., agency, company, bureau, business
anim-soc-orgspecific organization, e.g., EC, United Nations, NASA
aspaspective, e.g., prototype, majority, piece
cncconcrete, e.g., table, battery, ligament, missile
cnc-agconcrete agent, e.g., camera, radio, truck, explosives
cnc-amoramorphous, e.g., breeze, tide, atmosphere
cnc-atomatomistic, e.g., electron, granule, nucleus
cnc-classclassifier, e.g., compound, substance, element
cnc-colorcolor, e.g., olive, orange, cherry
cnc-ednmedible (non-mass), e.g., cracker, lemon, pork chop
cnc-funcfunctional, e.g., box, wall, pipe, circuit, shirt
cnc-lightimpulse/light, e.g., beacon, ray, tone, flare
cnc-markmark/blemish, e.g., boil, blemish, scratch
cnc-natnatural, e.g., cloud, pebble, flower
cnc-nat-plantplant, e.g., violet, clove, lilac
informinformation, e.g., newspaper, symbol, rule, ballistics
inform-sensemiotic system, e.g., address, signal, code, number
loclocative, e.g., office, zone, city, room, Munich
massmass, e.g., iron, water, sand, fiber, fire, heat
mass-matmaterial, e.g., aluminum, wool, plastic, glass
measmeasure, e.g., pressure, quantity, gram, rpm, voltage
meas-absabstract measure, e.g., temperature, length, velocity
meas-discdiscrete measurable concept, e.g., increment, sum, count
meas-unitunit of measure, e.g., inch, cm, hour, volt, hertz, kph
procprocess, e.g., correction, analysis, call, removal
tmptemporal, e.g., summer, morning, September, Friday
achievachievement
actunspecified activity
emotemotion
eventevent
ment-actmental activity
movmovement
mov_motdirdirected motion, e.g., dance, depart, fly, go
mov_motndnon-directed motion, e.g., depart, go, walk
noisenoise-producing
phys-actphysical activity, e.g., persist, refrain, appear
perceptperceptive
permpermission verb
phaphasal verb
proprocess
sensesense
situatsituation
statstative, e.g., grow, become, sound
colorcolor, e.g., red, yellow
cntcountable
degdegree, e.g., acute, intense, substantial
indefindefinite
loclocative, e.g., above, forward, regional
manmanner, e.g., charismatic, intrepid, personable
meameasure, e.g., approximate, huge, minimal
seqsequence, e.g., consecutive, daily, former
shapeshape
connconnective
degdegree, e.g., merely, approximately, completely
freqfrequency, e.g., again, once, twice
manmanner, e.g., by hand, electronically, simultaneously
probprobability, e.g., conceivably, by chance, maybe
seqsequence, e.g., primarily, lastly, first
spaspace, e.g., anywhere, to the right, inside
statstative, e.g., alike, at ease, out of commission
tmptime, e.g., still, yet, already, at one time
caucausal, e.g., as a result of, because of
cau-negcausal-negation, e.g., despite, in the absence of
combcombinatorial, e.g., with, in combination with
conconnective
concessconcessive
condconditional
corcorrelative
cor-negcorrelative-negation
dirdirection
inclinclusive, e.g., in addition to, inclusive of
incl-neginclusive-negation, e.g., except for, instead of, without
instrinstrumental, e.g., by, by means of, by way of
loclocative
loc-extlocative-extensive
loc-fromlocative-from, e.g., from, off of, out of
loc-pathlocative-path
loc-tolocative-to, e.g., to
manmanner
meameasure
modmodal
origorigin
pathpath
purppurpose, e.g., for, for the benefit of
qualqualitative
quantquantitative
tmptime, e.g., at the beginning of, during, prior to
tmp_exttemporal_extensive
tmp_fromtemporal_from
tmp_idtemporal_identical
tmp_totemporal_to
unitunit
ununspecified
Indicates word-relation link to another entry in the same language.
synonymsynonym of
near-synonymnear synonym of
antonymantonym of
near-antonymnear antonym of
has-hyperonymis kind of (subordinate)
has-hyponymhas kind (superordinate)
has-holonympart of
has-meronymwhole of
has-holo-membermember of (member-set)
has-mero-memberset (member-set)
has-holo-portionportion of
has-mero-portionhas portion
has-holo-madeofingredient of
has-mero-madeofhas ingredient
has-holo-locationmore specific place
has-mero-locationwider place
causescause of
is-caused-byeffect of
has-subevent(between verbs/gerunds) e.g., sleep ~ snore
is-subevent-of(between verbs/gerunds) e.g., snore ~ sleep
roleactivity that something (noun) is involved in
involvedthing (noun) involved in activity represented by verb
role-agenttypical activity of agent, e.g., teaching ~ teacher
involved-agenttypical agent of activity, e.g., teacher ~ teaching
role-patientactivity undergone by patient, e.g., learning ~ learner
involved-patienttypically undergoes activity, e.g., learner ~ learning
role-resultactivity that results in object, e.g., crystallising ~ crystal
involved-resultobject resulting from activity, e.g. crystal ~ cystallising
role-instrumentactivity instrument is used for, e.g., hammering ~ hammer
involved-instrumentinstrument used for activity, e.g., hammer ~ hammering
role-locationactivity typical of a place, e.g., teaching ~ school
involved-locationplace where activity occurs, e.g., school ~ teaching
role-directionactivity from/to/over/across/thru a place, e.g., crossing ~ river
involved-directionplace from/to/over/thru,etc. which activity occurs, e.g., river ~ cross
producesproducer of
is-product-ofproduct of
process-stepstep in a process
in-sequenceelement in a sequence
is-spatial-relrelated spatially
is-associatedassociated term
is-child-ofoffspring of
is-parent-ofparent of
is-used-foris used for
useuse to which something is put
in-manner(verb ~ adv) snore ~ noisily
manner-of(adv ~ verb) noisily ~ snore
be-in-state(noun ~ adj) tycoon ~ wealthy
state-of(adj ~ noun) wealthy ~ tycoon
previousprevious version of entry
no-synonymnot allowed as synonym
has-no-synhas disallowed synonym
is-derived-fromderivational morphology
has-derivedderivational morphology
pertains-to(adj ~ noun) chemical ~ chemistry
is-pertained-to(noun ~ adj) chemistry ~ chemical
has-instanceclass
belongs-to-classinstance of class
keywordkeyword
acronymacronym
has-acronymhas acronym
orth-variantorthographical variant -> see attribute table that follows
has-orth-varianthas orthographical variant
abbreviationabbreviated form
has-abbrevhas abbreviated form
headwordhead word of compound/phrase
has-headwordhas head word
fuzzynym(noun ~ noun; verb ~ verb) fuzzy semantic relation
repl-controlledreplace with controlled language
Compound noun codes:Indicate relations between compnd nouns and compnd elements
co-rolegeneral relation between compound noun and compound element
co-agent-patientcriminal ~ crime victim
co-patient-agentcrime victim ~ criminal
co-agent-instrumentguitar player ~ guitar
co-instrument-agentguitar ~ guitar player
co-agent-resultnovel writer ~ novel
co-result-agentnovel ~ novel writer
co-patient-instrumentice ~ ice saw
co-instrument-patientice saw ~ ice
co-patient-resultpastry dough ~ pastry
co-result-patientpastry ~ pastry dough
co-instrument-resultmovie camera ~ movie
co-result-instrumentmovie ~ movie camera
unrelation unspecified
Describes orthographic variants.
german-1Match vowels to stemSchänke/Schenke
german-2"selbstständig" instead of "selbständig"unselbstständig/unselbständig
german-3German spelling of non-German wordsSoße/Sauce
german-4Write "f" instead of "ph" Fantasie/Phantasie
german-5Write "r" instead of "rh"Katarr/Katarrh
german-6Write "t" instead of "th" Tunfisch/Thunfisch
german-7Write "zi" instead of "ti" differenziell/differentiell
german-8Plural "ices" instead of "izes"Indices/Indizes
german-9New spelling of non-German wordsCampagne/Kampagne
german-10Repeat three letters without a hyphenSchifffahrt/Schiff-Fahrt
german-11Write preposition and "weak" noun as two wordsim Stande/imstande
german-12Write "nicht" in compound adjectives as a separate word nicht öffentlich/nichtöffentlich
german-13Write "rein" in compound adjectives as a separate wordrein seiden/reinseiden
german-14Write "wohl" in compound adjectives as a separate wordwohl tuend/wohltuend
german-15Write non-German words with multiple parts as a single wordBluejeans/Blue Jeans
german-16Write non-German words with multiple parts with a hyphenFall-out/Fallout
The degree of transfer relationship between words/phrases in two different languages.
fullfull equivalence
partialpartial equivalence
altalternate transfer
noneno equivalence
ununspecified
Indicates 1) the context for a given translation of a source word/phrase into a target word/phrase, or 2) the context for a structural change in the target language.
headthe entry word itself or the head of the entry string
ppprepositional phrase
genobjpossessive phrase, eg., "of n"
adjdescriptive/predicate adjective
prepprep in phrase in which entry noun is prep object
subjsubject noun
dobjdirect object noun
iobjindirect object noun
compsentential complement
advadverb
prepobjnoun object of preposition
stringrefers to phrase that must be matched word-for-word; phrase itself is specified as value of feature >transTest<
Designates a logical operator
ANDconjunction
ORalternative
NOTnegation
Designates the logical operator AND
ANDconjunction
Indicates whether the test on the context is of type string or data category.
STRINGstring
DATACATdata category
Names the data category to which a test pertains.
any linguistic OLIF data category
Indicates the type of change designated by the structural change
add-in-targetadd an element in the target
del-in-targetdelete an element in the target
change-vbformchange the verb form
change-rolechange the role of an argument
assign-caseassign case to a noun
change-el-transferchange the transfer of a context element
Names the part of speech of an element being added or deleted.
any OLIF part of speech name
Specifies the type of change designated by the structural change
activetarget is active voice
passivetarget is passive voice
causativetarget is causative
reflexivetarget is reflexive
subj-dobjsubject is target direct object
dobj-subjdirect object is target subject
dobj-iobjdirect object is target indirect object
iobj-dobjindirect object is target direct object
subj-iobjsubject is target indirect object
iobj-subjindirect object is target subject
nnominative
ggenitive
ddative
aaccusative
objobjective
subjsubjective
loclocative
prpprepositional
instinstrumental
The syntactic position describes the unmarked
positioning of the entry string syntactically.
cl-finalclause-final
cl-initclause-initial
deg-postdegree adverb after morphemeapiece, enough
deg-predegree adverb before morphemeless, very, hardly, slightly, fully
postverbfollowing main verb
preverbbefore main verb
The syntactic type describes the general
syntactic behavior of the entry string.
cntcountable noun
collcollective noun (delete; in semantic type)
massmass noun (moved to semantic type)
mass-cntcountable mass noun (delete)
propproper noun
quantquantitative noun
-able-ABLE participleconsignable, obtainable
attribattribute adjective
pastpast participleseen, revised, displayed
predpredicative adjective
prespresent participlehoping, designing, realizing
adjmodmodifies adjective
advmodmodifies adverb
clsmodmodifies clause
detmodmodifies determiner (delete; implicit in npmod)
npmodmodifies noun phrase
numodmodifies numeral
prepmodmodifies preposition
quantmodmodifies quantifier (delete; implicit in npmod)
Describes the transitivity type of a verb.
ditransditransitivegive, provide, send
intrintransitive
midmiddle
reflreflexive
transtransitive
ununspecified
unaccunaccusative intransitive
unergunergative intransitive
Describes the syntactic frame elements for the
entry string (subcategorisation).
ppprepositional phrase required
pp-optprepositional phrase optional
pp-loclocational/directional prepositional phrase required
pp-loc-optlocational/directional prepositional phrase optional