The Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek (ANW) and its Lexicographical Process

online, corpus-based, scholarly dictionary of contemporary standard Dutch in the Netherlands and in Flanders, describing the Dutch vocabulary from 1970 onwards. It is one of the main projects of the Leiden Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie (INL, Institute of Dutch Lexicology). As well as being an ‘online dictionary ’ through which a range of users can explore the Dutch vocabulary, the ANW is also a linguistic data resource from which especially language professionals can extract data necessary for their research. The project focuses on the general vocabulary of written Dutch and it provides semasiological and onomasiological access to the dictionary. The ANW can be characterised as an online dictionary under construction (called an Ausbauworterbuch by Schroder 1997). The project started in 2001 and a first version of the full dictionary should be completed at the end of 2017. In December 2009 a demo version was launched and new dictionary articles are being added on a regular basis (with an average of 4 updates per year).1 In this paper, we describe the lexicographical process of the ANW from its conception through to its online publication. 2. The lexicographical process of the AN