DANTE is a lexicographic project where the end product is not a dictionary but a lexical database resulting from in-depth analysis of corpus data. Its lexical entries offer a thorough, systematic, and fine-grained description of the core vocabulary of English, derived entirely from corpus data. The users of DANTE are not the dictionary-using public but the lexicographic teams who will develop dictionaries and computer lexicons from it. This project is the source-language analysis stage of the New English-Irish Dictionary (NEID). The database covers approximately 50,000 headwords and 45,000 compounds, idioms and phrasal verbs, using over 40 datatypes in their lexical description.