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DICTIONARY OFTOPONYMS IN SERBIAN
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Gordana Pavlovic-Lažetic1Cvetana Krstev2Duško
Vitas11Faculty of Mathematics2Faculty of
PhilologyUniversity of BelgradeSerbia
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DICTIONARY OF TOPONYMS OVERVIEW

• AIMS
• SOURCES CONTENTS
• STRUCTURE FORMAT
• TAGS
• SPECIFICS
• EXAMPLES daily newspapers
• FURTHER DEVELOPMENT

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DICTIONARY OF TOPONYMS AIMS

• Daily newspaper analysis Intex
• Web browsers
• Unknown words proper names personal and
  toponyms
• Prolintex Maurel, Piton
• Encyclopedic dictionary with morphological tags
  Intex experimental
• Delas-top toponyms, hydronyms, oronyms size
  2600 simple words

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DICTIONARY OF TOPONYMS SOURCES

• YU / foreign geography
• Geographic atlas used in education in Serbia
• Official statistics register of inhabited places
  in former Yugoslavia
• Belgrade, Serbia, Monte Negro
• Bosnia, Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia
• South / Central / West / North Europe
• Near East, Asia, Africa
• North America (USA Canada), South America
• Australia, Pacific islands
• Arctic Antarctic, seas oceans
• Earth, continents, cosmos, Sun system

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DICTIONARY OF TOPONYMS CHOICE

• Country
• Official languages
• Capital city
• Administrative divisions of common importance
  (e.g., US states)
• Cities (more than 10000 / 50000 /100000
  inhabitants)
• Hydronyms (rivers, lakes, swamps associated with
  mouth-country)
• Mountains, volcanoes, etc, if of common
  importance (for, e.g., newspaper text)

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DICTIONARY OF TOPONYMS CONTENTS

• Proper names
• Relational adjectives (-ski, -sxki, -cyki)
• Names of inhabitants, including pejoratives (if
  exist e.g., sxvaba,sxiptar)
• Possessive adjectives (-ov/-ev -in)
• Examples 
• Pariz,N - pariski,ARel
• Parizxanin,Nm - Parizxaninov,APoss
• Parizxanka,Nf - Parizxankin,APoss
• parizxanski,ARel 

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DICTIONARY OF TOPONYMS CONTENTS

• YU-geography local official names
• Foreign exonyms (rarely official / traditional)
• E.g., Becy, Rim, Solun, Bitolx, Skoplxe, Prag
• Transcription (adjusted) Cyrillic orthography
  (e.g., Bolonxa)
• Orthography transcription rules
• Phonetic / adjusted to writing (e.g., Cykago,
  Cyikagou) / declination
• Tradition (spontaneous e.g., Peking)
• Latin diacritic (Be) / rarely transliteration

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DICTIONARY OF TOPONYMS STRUCTURE FORMAT

• Delas-top entry syntactic semantic attributes
• Syntactic flective classes for simple words
  (Delas for Serbian)
• Generated a part of DELAF-top dictionary
• Semantics Prolintex

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DICTIONARY OF TOPONYMS TAGS - codes

• DER (derivative) Beogradxanka, .NfsDer(Beograd)
• Top (toponym, place)Beograd, .Nms Top
• Hyd hydronym dunavski,.ARelHyd
• Oro oronym Gocy,.NmsOro
• Hum- human beings Valxevka,.NfsHum
• IsoXX ISO-country-code for toponyms
  Beograd,.NmsTopIsoYU
• LngXX language code grcyki, .A LngEL
• PR proper names Beograd,.NmsTopPR
• PG pejorative name Sxvabica,.NfsPG

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DICTIONARY OF TOPONYMS TAGS

• PAut Autonom. region Vojvodina,.NfsTopPAut
  IsoYU
• PCen Regional center Nisx,.NmsPCen
• PDgr City or place part Autokomanda, .Nfs
  PDgr
• PDrz Country Francuska,.NAfsPDrz
• PGr1-PGr4, PGgr Sofija, .NfsTopPGgrPGr4IsoBG
• POps Township Cyukarica,.NfsTopPOpsIsoYU
• PKon Continent Evropa,.NfsPKon
• POst Island Elba,.NfsPRTopPOstIsoIT
• PPla Mountain Rila,.NfsPROroPPlaIsoBG
• PReg Region Metohija,.NfsTopPRegIsoYU
• PRgr Reg. Cap. city Prisxtina,.NfsTopPRgrIso
  YU

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DICTIONARY OF TOPONYMS SPECIFICS nouns

• Fem. Top, Hyd, Oro, Hum (inhab.)
• Size
• Total 911
• YU 146 (16)
• Foreign 765 (84)
• Types
• Tops 364 (40)
• Hyds 131 (14)
• Oros 33 (4)
• Fem. inhab.383 (42)

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DICTIONARY OF TOPONYMS SPECIFICS nouns (cont.)

• Inhabitants (fem.)
• a) ka, 361 (94), same synt. cl., e.g.,
• Beogradxanka, Bugarka, Parizxanka,
  Kanadxanka
• b) ca, 7 (2), diff. synt. cl., e.g.,
  Sxvabica, Sremica
• c) nxa, 15 (4), same synt. cl., e.g.,
  Grkinxa, Polxakinxa, Turkinxa,
  Francuskinxa, Renkinxa

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DICTIONARY OF TOPONYMS SPECIFICS adjectives

• Possessive, relational
• Size
• Total 1673
• YU 268 (16)
• Foreign1405 (84)
• Types
• Rel 1002 (60)
• Poss 671 (40)

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DICTIONARY OF TOPONYMS SPECIFICS adjectives
(cont.)

• Relational
• -ski, -sxki, -cyki
• e.g., beogradski, prasxki, becyki
• orthography small l.
• Possessive
• -in, e.g., Beogradxankin (f.), Becylijin(m.)
• -ov, -ev (m.), e.g., Beogradxaninov,
  Prisxtincyev

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DICTIONARY OF TOPONYMS SPECIFICS homonymy

• Mostly nouns, same synt. cl., e.g.,
• Barselona, .NfsTopPGr2IsoVE
• Barselona, .NfsTopPGr4IsoES
• Alabama, .NfsTopPFedIsoUS
• Alabama, .NfsHydIsoUS
• Drenica, .NfsTopPRegIsoYU
• Drenica, .NfsHydIsoYU
• Some adjectives, e.g.,
• kolumbijski, .ARelTopIsoUS
• kolumbijski, .ARelTopPDrzIsoCO

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DICTIONARY OF TOPONYMS EXAMPLES Politika

• Bilateral relationships in former YU
• Bilateral relationships in former YU AL
• Officials in former YU US GB
• Officials bilateral officials

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DICTIONARY OF TOPONYMS EXAMPLES Politika
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DICTIONARY OF TOPONYMS EXAMPLES Politika
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DICTIONARY OF TOPONYMS EXAMPLES Politika
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DICTIONARY OF TOPONYMS EXAMPLES Politika
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DICTIONARY OF TOPONYMS FURTHER DEVELOPMENT

• Further development of DELAS-TOP (dictionary by
  continents)
• Description of compounds (DELAFC-top), e.g., Novi
  Sad
• DB system
• Local grammars describing relationships between
  toponyms / grouping, e.g., Jugoslavija ex-YU
  SRJ SCG ... Balkan part ( normalization -
  body)
• Tags reduction (e.g., PGr1, PGr2, PGr3, PGr4,
  PVgr, PGgr -gt PGrad) Prolintex2
• Information extraction