@article{biffi-etal-2026-print,
    title = "From Print to Digital and beyond: The Retrodigitization of a Historical Dictionary of {I}talian as a Hybrid Lexical Resource",
    author = "Biffi, Marco  and
      Cucurullo, Sebastiana  and
      Favaro, Manuel  and
      Guadagnini, Elisa  and
      Montemagni, Simonetta  and
      Sassolini, Eva",
    editor = "Piperidis, Stelios  and
      Bel, N{\'u}ria  and
      van den Heuvel, Henk  and
      Ide, Nancy  and
      Krek, Simon  and
      Toral, Antonio",
    journal = "International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation",
    volume = "main",
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
    publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-lrec/2026.lrec-main.57/",
    pages = "770--777",
    abstract = "This paper presents the retrodigitization project of the Grande Dizionario della Lingua Italiana (GDLI), the largest and most comprehensive historical dictionary of the Italian language. The GDLI{'}s 23,000 pages {---} originally designed for human consultation {---} constitute an exceptional repository of linguistic and cultural-historical information, while posing significant challenges to large-scale digitization and data structuring. The project, still ongoing, will result in the development of a set of interoperable and interlinked resources: (i) a TEI-XML edition of the dictionary text, encoding its complex lexicographic and citation structure; (ii) an annotated corpus of the quoted examples, enabling linguistic and historical research across centuries; and (iii) a database of cited authors and works. Together, these components form a hybrid lexical resource that establishes the foundations for innovative and advanced modes of accessing and exploring the rich and multifaceted content of this historical dictionary."
}