Creating the Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqey Dictionary: A Personal Reflection on Fifty Years of Lexicography
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT: Making a dictionary of the Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqey language has demanded two types of commitment. The technical, practical side of the lexicographers' task is compiling words, organizing the collection into accessible entries with useful content, and formatting the dictionary both for publication as a book and online. Equally important is the cultural and social commitment required of dictionary-makers; for a dictionary by its very nature embodies the language and is a gateway into understanding the ways in which speakers express thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and personal relations. This understanding must be reflected both in the dictionary entries themselves and in their presentation. The compilation of the Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqey dictionary has been a long-term process, which began in the 1970s and continues today. The following account recalls the processes the authors have used, the insights they have gained about language and lexicography, and the results of their work. It is a personal memoir in the sense that it reflects my own perceptions of the dictionary's evolution and of the people who created it.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.021 | 0.038 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.014 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".