Abstract
An innovative online Swahili–English dictionary project is presented. A careful study of some of the log files attached to this reference work reveals some hitherto unknown as-pects of true dictionary look-up behaviour, which results in the depreciation of the importance of corpora for dictionary making. Three lexicography software modules are advanced to further enhance the success of the online dictionary. Keywords: lexicography, software, online, dictionary, log file, corpus, frequency, rank, correlation, swahili, english, tshwanelex
Highlights
International Conference of the African Association for Lexicography, organised by the Sesiu sa Sesotho Lexicography Unit, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Republic of South
Since the beginning of modern corpus-based lexicography with the COBUILD project in the early 1980s (Sinclair 1987), hardly anyone has doubted the value of using electronic corpora on both the macrostructural and microstructural levels during the entire compilation process of reference works
Focussing on the microstructure of reference works, it further seems sound to accept that when senses are arranged according to their occurrences in corpora, that when examples are chosen from the living language, and that when all other aspects such as collocationality issues are based on corpus statistics, that the user will again be most satisfied
Summary
Since the beginning of modern corpus-based lexicography with the COBUILD project in the early 1980s (Sinclair 1987), hardly anyone has doubted the value of using electronic corpora on both the macrostructural and microstructural levels during the entire compilation process of reference works. Focussing on the microstructure of reference works, it further seems sound to accept that when senses are arranged according to their occurrences in corpora, that when examples are chosen from the living language, and that when all other aspects such as collocationality issues are based on corpus statistics, that the user will again be most satisfied. Given all the data in the current article will be based on this online dictionary project, a summary of that proposal seems in order
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