Abstract
This paper initially discusses some of the consequences which the technological development has for lexicography, especially in terms of the different types of empirical basis which can be used in dictionary projects. The most important advantages and disadvantages of using the Internet as a corpus are then listed and compared to the usefulness of "traditional" corpora. As an example, the paper shows how the Internet is used as the main empirical source in order to select lemmata and meaning items in the Online Dictionaries of Spanish Valladolid-UVa. The methods and tools employed in the project are discussed together with the requirements to the lexicographers' competences, knowledge and skills. Finally, the paper provides some general conclusions as well as recommendations and hypotheses for future lexicographical work and research.
Highlights
Looking at the overall dictionary compilation process as described by FuertesOlivera and Tarp (2014: 85), there are three instances where lexicographers may need access to empirical data in order to do a good job
The comparison has so far been favourable to the Online Dictionaries of Spanish Valladolid-UVa, as it shows that each lemma treated with the described method has an average of 30-40 percent more senses than the ones found in the four other dictionaries
It is surprising that lexicography so far has made more use of an old technology than of a more recent one
Summary
Looking at the overall dictionary compilation process as described by FuertesOlivera and Tarp (2014: 85), there are three instances where lexicographers may need access to empirical data in order to do a good job. The second one is when they are selecting and preparing the lexicographical data to be included in the dictionary. There is a fourth situation where external empirical data may be required, i.e. when analysing the market in order to determine the sales possibilities of the product, but this is more related to the business side of the project than to lexicographical aspects in the narrow sense of the word. We will look at the empirical bases and the corresponding methods that can be applied when selecting lemmata and meaning items (senses) in a lexicographical online project. We will present the hitherto experience and introduce the need to count on intuition as an intangible but highly relevant and unavoidable method in dictionary making
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