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Diretes is a Spanish monolingual e-dictionary based on Lexical-Semantic Relations which are formalized by Lexical Functions, a formal tool explored within the Meaning-Text Theory. This dictionary consists of a relational database which aims to reflect the cognitive links of the lexicon through a network of semantic and lexical associations. Currently it contains more than 100,000 collocations and semantic relations, and includes dictionary entries for simple words, compound words, idioms and formulaic expressions. The majority of the definitions of each entry consist of two parts: a minimal definition (written with basic words) and an expanded definition (which collects world knowledge data). The structure of the entries of the dictionary for formulaic expressions, however, are more complex as they also include a pragmatic function, a prototypical scenario, and certain other 247specific information. Semantic relations include synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy and other productive relations not utilized to date in other dictionaries. Lexical Functions allow the user of the dictionary to consult the entries, including idioms, through both onomasiological and semasiological approaches. This paper summarizes the purpose of the creation of Diretes and the idiosyncracies of this dictionary.
