Spanish Full-Form Lexicon

CJKI maintains full-form lexicons for Arabic, Japanese, and Spanish whose coverage will soon exceed 150 million entries. CJKI’s monolingual edition Spanish Full-Form Lexicon (SFULEX) covers approximately one million entries and includes part-of-speech codes and other grammatical attributes forms, whereas the bilingual edition contains about 26 million entries.

A full-form lexicon is a comprehensive lexical database that contains all inflected, declined, and conjugated forms of a language. Unlike an ordinary dictionary that lists only the canonical forms (base lexemes), such as eat, a full-form lexicon includes all inflected forms such as eating, eaten, and ate. In English, the number of inflected forms is limited to a handful of word forms, but languages like Arabic (and Japanese and Spanish) can have thousands of inflected forms for each verb. For example, the Spanish hablar ‘to speak’ has hundreds of inflected forms like hablaré ‘I will speak’ and hablaría ‘I would speak’.

SFULEX provides full coverage for all inflected and conjugated forms (word forms) in Spanish. The sample shows a subset of the conjugation paradigm for hablar ‘to speak’.