This paper describes the work carried out with the ‘Diccionario Ideológico de la Lengua Española’ (Dl) by J. Casares. The Dl is the only large existing thesaurus for Spanish. It was published in the early forties and since then it has not been updated. The words, and lexical information related to them, contained in ideological dictionaries are not stored in alphabetical order but in ‘ideological’ or semantic order, that is, words are ordered according to their meaning. For this reason extracting information from these dictionaries is not as easy and fast as it is with alphabetical dictionaries. This is the problem the computer comes to solve. The purpose of the work presented was to make available in a computer the information contained in the Dl. To accomplish this task, we divided the work into two primary areas. After creating a Machine Readable Dictionary (MRD) from the Dl, we studied the techniques the author suggested for extracting information from the Dl and implemented them in the MRD version. We then developed a new level to overcome some practical problems we found in information extraction. We then implemented the whole system for extracting information automatically. Now we are working on how to reuse the existing information for Natural Language Processing.
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En 1919 es elegido miembro de la Real Academia Española, y en 1921 lee su discurso de ingreso, que lleva por título Nuevo concepto del diccionario de la lengua. En él expone la necesidad de establecer un nuevo modelo de diccionario y establece los criterios esenciales que habrían de dar lugar a su Diccionario ideol.