Mannen är faderns mormor: Svenskt associationslexikon reinkarnerat
Lars Borin · LexicoNordica · 2005
Svenskt associationslexikon (SAL; Lönngren 1992) is relatively new and relativelylittle known Swedish thesaurus, compiled on the basis of corpora and some existingSwedish monolingual lexical resources. SAL is organized as a strict lexical-semantichierarchy originating in an artificial top lexeme, where (primary) vertical ’parent’–’child’ relations point to less central, but semantically closely related lexemes, and(secondary) horizontal ’sibling’ relations form thesaurus-like word families. Thispaper describes my work – in collaboration with the author of SAL, Lennart Lönngren– on making an electronic version of the full SAL (comprising 71752 entries)publicly available through Språkbanken at Göteborg University in a modern, standardizedformat, which has been thoroughly checked for formal errors, enhancedwith additional information about lemmas and inflectional paradigms of entries, andmade browsable with a web-based graphical interface capable of displaying andnavigating the network structure of SAL.