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The article describes the use of artificial intelligence in compiling English dictionary entries for a dictionary of abbreviations (Slovar krajšav), published in 2025 and financed by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS). Together with the Slovenian dictionary of abbreviations (Slovenski slovar krajšav) published in 2023, the mentioned dictionary adopted a pioneering approach to the compilation of dictionaries in Slovenia; namely, they are the first contemporary dictionaries of abbreviations. The dictionary of abbreviations was compiled in line with an analysis of the characteristics of English dictionary entries for abbreviations and according to the characteristics of the compilation process used for bilingual dictionaries. The dictionary of abbreviations comprises entries in over 20 languages, the most frequent being English, Italian, French etc. In the article, we focus on compiling English dictionary entries and using artificial intelligence as part of that, namely the Krajšavar algorithm. The article describes the application of artificial intelligence – the Krajšavar algorithm – in the process of compiling the dictionary of abbreviations Slovar krajšav and shows the need for a dictionary of abbreviations to be compiled in the Slovenian language. Dictionaries of abbreviations for the Slovenian language are presented in a synchronic and diachronic framework (cf. Kompara Lukančič 2018), namely, two outdated dictionaries Kratice (Župančič 1948) and Rečnik jugoslovenskih skraćenica (Zidar 1971), and two more recent online dictionary attempts Slovarček krajšav (Kompara Lukančič 2006) and Slovar krajšav (Kompara Lukančič 2011), and the most recently published Slovenian dictionary of abbreviations Slovenski slovar krajšav (Kompara Lukančič 2023). The Slovenian dictionary of abbreviations Slovenski slovar krajšav (Kompara Lukančič 2023) led to the compiling of the dictionary of abbreviations Slovar krajšav, a collection of 3,500 alphabetically ordered dictionary entries and over 4,200 expansions gathered in a single volume encompassing over 20 foreign languages. In the article, the overall compilation of the dictionary of abbreviations Slovar krajšav is presented, and examples of dictionary entries, namely for English abbreviations, are outlined and discussed. As shown by the presented examples, a dictionary entry is composed following the compilation process used in previously published dictionaries Slovarček krajšav (Kompara Lukančič 2006), Slovar krajšav (Kompara Lukančič 2011) and the Slovenian dictionary of abbreviations Slovenski slovar krajšav (Kompara Lukančič 2023), coupled with the characteristics of a range of English dictionaries of abbreviations (Kompara Lukančič 2009, 2018). The compilation process took almost two decades to complete and included the application of several algorithms, that is, for lemmatisation, language detection, and the automatic recognition of abbreviations. In the final steps of preparation, the dictionary was compiled manually and with the help of AI that permitted abbreviations on a specialised field to be included, as well as relevant abbreviations obtained from a range of texts following the text typology and under the Krajšavar algorithm. The dictionary of abbreviations Slovar krajšav together with the Slovenian dictionary of abbreviations Slovenski slovar krajšav (Kompara Lukančič 2023) therefore represents an important work in the linguistic framework of abbreviations for the Slovenian language.
