Oxford Languages July 2024 updates

This release includes the addition of 114 new entries, 20 new phrases, and 20 new senses for existing entries.
 
New entries include:

The content update resulted in the addition of approximately 1270 new entries. New entries include:

The Korean monolingual lexical data also had data improvements. Some changes have been made to the list of labels and parts of speech used in the dataset, including the addition of new parts of speech and sensitivity labels.

 
Two new sensitivity labels have been added to the data in order to appropriately label the new content that has been added to the dataset.
 
The new sensitivity labels are:

 
New part of speech labels in the data. It contains the following new parts of speech:

 
In addition, other tags like region and register have been improved to provide clear differentiation.

 
Finally, the tagging of identical headwords has been improved by adding and amending homograph attributes.

The editorial team included over 200 new and updated entries across Arabic-English and English-Arabic.
 
The new entries include:

Content updates for the bilingual Chinese (Mandarin, simplified Chinese) data includes around 100 new terms that were added to the English-Chinese side, including:

The German bilingual includes over 250 new and updated entries across German-English and English-German. This year’s update focused on the evolving language of sex and gender.
 
New words include:

 
Updates on the data were also made. For instance, stress and syllable markers from the German headwords were removed but are still present within attribute on the headword element.

The French bilingual update includes over 200 new or updated entries across English-French and French-English and covers additions such as:

 
Structural data were also made to this data. Like the German-English dataset, the stress and syllable markers have been removed from the French headwords but are still present within the one of the attributes on the headword element.
 
Other structural data updates were also made to the bilingual dataset.

In this round of update, the Italian bilingual data included approximately 100 new terms on the English-Italian side. Some examples are:

Release for the Korean bilingual dataset includes the addition of approximately 800 new entries. New entries include:

 
Additionally, some data elements were reviewed and improved. For instance, sensitivity improvements have been made to remove references to curse words from entries where they are not relevant.

For this year content update for our Portuguese bilingual dataset, around 100 new terms have been added to the English-Portuguese side, including:

 
Instances of black referring to ethnicity have been changed to Black in both sides, in line with current US English usage, as this dataset primarily uses US English.

The content update made in the Russian bilingual dictionary data includes approximately 50 new and updated entries across Russian-English and English-Russian. New words include:

 
Updates around the data was also included, where stress and syllable markers have been removed from the Russian headwords but are still present within the one of the attributes on the headword element.

The editorial team added and revised approximately 300 entries across English-Spanish and Spanish-English. The new additions include the entries:

 
Sensitivity review has been carried out across both sides to ensure that sensitive terms are labelled and used appropriately. Besides the content update, updates on the data were also made, including the expansion of abbreviations for ‘somebody’ (‘sb’), ‘something’ (‘sth’), and ‘alguien’ (‘algn’) across both sides of the bilingual dataset.