Das „Algemeen Nederlandse Woordenboek" (ANW) und "elexiko" - ein Vergleich

The ANW and 'elexiko' represent a new generation of scholarly online dictionaries: they are no digitalised copies of existing printed dictionaries, but they are, as far as content and technology is concerned, developed from scratch as brand-new products. First a short overview is given of the main similarities and differences between the two dictionaries. Then the differences in search options offered by elexiko and the ANW are discussed in more depth. elexiko follows the well-known system with the distinction ‘simple search’ and ‘advanced search’. The ANW has created a new system with the following search options: search for information about a word, search for a word (with the meaning as starting-point), search for words (on the basis of one or more common features), search for examples (with common features) and search for meta-information about the dictionary itself. In the onomasiological searches from content to word the ‘semagram’, the representation of conceptual knowledge connected with a word in a frame with ‘slots’ and ‘fillers’, plays a prominent role. The semagram is also an innovation of the ANW.