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Lexicography is the science and practice of making dictionaries. Its development has led to new techniques for the visual presentation of lexicographic entries. This article focuses on the technique of photodocumentation, which enables a textual quotation to be shown in its natural context. We aim to present a technological system which will make it possible, relatively cheaply, to produce a monolingual dictionary together with quotations and chronologisation—that is, the date at which a given word first appears. We consider the example of Vietnamese. As a preliminary database of material we selected just over 100 books, which we scanned and from which we excerpted quotations to illustrate the natural use of the headwords.
Research reported in this paper was supported by the Polish Ministry of Education under Grant no. 0014/NPRH3/H11/82/2014, Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego. 
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Wierzchoń, P. (2017). The Great National Photocorpus of 20th-Century Vietnamese. Origins, Assumptions and Goals. In: Król, D., Nguyen, N., Shirai, K. (eds) Advanced Topics in Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2017. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 710. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56660-3_30
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