Slipping through the cracks of e-lexicography: lessons from ColloCaid
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2019. Abstract from Electronic lexicography in the 21st century (eLex 2019), Sintra, Portugal.
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T1 - Slipping through the cracks of e-lexicography: lessons from ColloCaid
AU - Rees, Geraint
AU - Frankenberg-Garcia, Ana
AU - Lew, Robert
AU - Roberts, Jonathan C.
AU - Sharma, Nirwan
AU - Butcher, Peter
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - Thanks to the corpus revolution which underpins e-lexicography, headword listsand defining vocabularies can now be adjusted to better reflect current language use. Definitions can be enhanced with information that goes beyond introspection alone. Syntactic patterning, lexical collocations and phraseology in general can now be given much more comprehensive coverage dictionary examples can be more easily found. Yet despite these unparalleled and undeniable advantages, there are elements of word usage that appear to be slipping through the cracks of corpus analyses and corpus-based lexicographic resources. Issues encountered during the development of the ColloCaid project, particularly its base word list, provide examples of such slips and a valuable opportunity to reflect on why they come about and how they might be addressed in future e-lexicography projects.
AB - Thanks to the corpus revolution which underpins e-lexicography, headword listsand defining vocabularies can now be adjusted to better reflect current language use. Definitions can be enhanced with information that goes beyond introspection alone. Syntactic patterning, lexical collocations and phraseology in general can now be given much more comprehensive coverage dictionary examples can be more easily found. Yet despite these unparalleled and undeniable advantages, there are elements of word usage that appear to be slipping through the cracks of corpus analyses and corpus-based lexicographic resources. Issues encountered during the development of the ColloCaid project, particularly its base word list, provide examples of such slips and a valuable opportunity to reflect on why they come about and how they might be addressed in future e-lexicography projects.
KW - Lexicographic information
KW - visualisation
KW - human computer interaction
M3 - Abstract
T2 - Electronic lexicography in the 21st century (eLex 2019)
Y2 - 1 October 2019 through 3 October 2019
ER -