Electronic Dictionary Research Articles

The Advantages of Pleco and Google Translate Applications in Assisting Mandarin Language Learning

As technology develops, dictionaries have changed from paper to electronic. Electronic dictionaries can be an alternative medium for language learning because they combine sound, visuals and text that make learning foreign languages easier. One example of using an electronic dictionary is in reading subjects. Users can learn about how to pronounce a vocabulary and sound tones correctly by utilizing the audio feature in an electronic dictionary. Vocabulary recall through mobile device applications is far more effective than through other media. The electronic dictionary application that is widely used by Chinese Literature students in learning Mandarin is the Pleco and Google Translate application. Therefore, the authors are interested in making comparisons of the similarities and differences between the two applications for the recommendation of Mandarin learning aids. This study uses a comparison method by comparing the functions of the two e-dictionaries. From the results of the comparison, both applications have keyboard features, handwriting features, voice record features and scanning features for translating words. The difference is in the radical features, stroke, number words and sentences sample

SOMATISKIE FRAZEOLOĢISMI K. ULMAŅA LATVIEŠU-VĀCU VĀRDNĪCĀ (1872) UN K. ULMAŅA / G. BRAŽES VĀCU-LATVIEŠU VĀRDNĪCĀ (1880)

The paper analyses Latvian and German somatic idioms in the dictionaries by K. Ulmann and K. Ulmann / G. Braže. Up to now the researchers of Latvian phraseology have not focused to analyse these theme – especially in diachronic aspect. The paper presents the most fixed somatic idioms in the Latvian and German and their equivalence types. The author compares with the meanings of idioms from the first dictionary (1638) to modern electronic dictionary “Modern Latvian dictionary”.

Language barriers in healthcare delivery

The relevance of language for quality healthcare delivery cannot be overemphasised. Within the framework of communication accommodation theory, this paper discusses language barriers in expatriate doctor–patient communication in three state-owned hospitals in Ghana, and the strategies employed by the medical personnel to bridge communication gaps. The study design is qualitative and the data were obtained through semi-structured interviews with 16 expatriate doctors, three nurses and three patients. Furthermore, observation of five patient–doctor interactions was undertaken and notes taken. Both datasets were then analysed using the qualitative conventional content analysis approach. The findings revealed that the expatriate doctors employed convergence strategies such as ad hoc interpreters, gestures, picture charts and electronic dictionaries to deal with language barriers. The study is expected to stimulate further research into innovative ways of dealing with language barriers in expatriate doctor–patient interactions.

Teaching russian as a foreign language in the modern educational paradigm: training dictionaries

The work is devoted to the problem of intensification of teaching Russian as a foreign language in the process of formation and development of the lexical competence of students. The role of educational dictionaries of various types is emphasized. The Experimental Electronic Multilingual Dictionary of Military Terms is presented. It is based on ABBYY Lingvo software for teaching Russian to foreign students of military universities. His vocabulary includes a special vocabulary describing various segments of military activity (weapons, equipment, commands, military life, etc.). For each word there are translations into European languages (boi - English batttle, combat; French combat (m); Portuguese combate) and Asian languages (Laos ; Arabic ; Pashto ). The potential of an electronic multilingual dictionary in the implementation of multicultural and professionally oriented teaching of Russian as a foreign language in a non-linguistic university is identified. The role of the electronic translated multilingual thesaurus in the formation of speech professional competence, which ensures the removal of language barriers in the study of military-technical sciences by foreigners, is determined. The universality of the dictionary is characterized. It was created taking into account those national languages whose speakers receive special education in Russian military universities, and provides opportunities for the redistribution of classroom and independent work of students. Its effectiveness has been proven as a tool for modern interactive, multilingual and multicultural education.

THE ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY “THE MYTHOLOGICAL VOCABULARY OF THE PERM REGION” AS A BASIS FOR LINGUO-GEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH: NOMINATIONS OF THE MERMAID IN ANAREAL PERSPECTIVE

The paper demonstrates the possibilities of using the electronic dictionary “The Mythological Vocabulary of the Perm Region” in linguo-geographical research: in the areal aspect, nominations of the mermaid that have been noted in the region are considered. A corresponding linguistic map has been created with the help of the dictionary. The analysis shows that the all-Russian unit rusalkais the most widespread one in the region and has been recorded in the majority of its districts. Someareasformspecial nominations (chertovka, leshachikha, vodianaia, shishiga, poludnitsa). The rest of the names are local. The absence of names for the mermaid, common to the entire Perm territory, and the presence of many local nominations indicate the graduallossof ideas about this character in the Permian mythological tradition. The commonality of the regional tradition is maintained only at the level of individual beliefs, not the language. Beliefs that are represented in the nominations of the mermaid andsupport the integrity of her image in the region include ideas about her demonic nature, her place of residence, the presence of her long hair, the prohibition to call her by her direct name and about the need toappease her. The advantage of the electronic dictionary “The Mythological Vocabulary of the PermRegion” when creating a linguistic map is the ability to go both from the vocabulary (through the section “Mythological character”) and from the geographical label (through the section “Geographic indexof lexical units”). Both approaches make it possible to compile a map faster than when working with a paper dictionary, since the dictionary makes it possible to automatically either get a list of all mapped units, or not to refer to dictionary entries atall, but to work only with geographical labels.

Design and Implementation of Intelligent English Electronic Dictionary System Based on Internet of Things

In this paper, the intelligent English electronic dictionary system is studied to design and implement the electronic dictionary system according to the advantages of the Internet of Things. The software architecture, the design, and implementation of the client and server‐side and related technologies in the development process of the dictionary application are used as the research content to comprehensively discuss the development process of the electronic dictionary. The client and server‐side is based on C/S technology architecture, and the server‐side is a standard Maven Web project, which is managed by Maven and does not cause conflicts; the model‐view‐controller framework is built using Spring MVC to achieve the separation of user interface and application logic. Spring MVC is used to build a model‐view‐controller framework to separate user interface and application logic. Spring dependency injection is used to build a loosely coupled project, which helps to separate project components; Spring Data JPA is used to build a persistence layer to facilitate data access and maximize the developer’s ability to automatically realize logical operations on data. After the overall performance test of the system, the performance is good under the platform, and the intelligence of trilingual word query is achieved, and the quickness and ease of use meet the requirements that can be applied.

The role of multimedia in education

This can present a challenge to educators wishing to engage students in the classroom while still providing required content in order to enhance learning outcomes. In Teaching and learning communication skills, we have a lot to choose from the world of technology: TV, CD Rom, Computers, the Internet, Electronic Dictionary, Email, Blogs and Audio Cassettes, Power Point, Videos, DVD's or VCD's. The last two decades have witnessed a revolution due to onset of technology, and has changed the dynamics of educational institutes, and has also influenced the educational system and the way people interact and work in the society. This rapid rising and development of information technology has offered a better pattern to explore the new teaching model. Using multimedia to create a context to teach communication skill has its unique advantages. As a result technology plays a very important role in teaching communication skill.

Modern electronic means of translation in the system of training of future translators

The article characterizes the need to use modern information and communication technologies in the work of future translators. The analysis of modern software tools that contribute to the automation and simplification of translation operations, the generalization of work with individual words and fragments of foreign text. The article reveals the peculiarities of the use of translation programs and electronic dictionaries in the training of future translators in the higher education system and their role in the thorough formation of translation competence in future professionals. The research reveals a number of advantages of using electronic translation tools in the work of a translator, defined as modern electronic software helps to select the most accurate equivalents of translation and lexical equivalents. Specialized software is a translator's assistant that automates basic actions, helps to structure and systematize translation activities. The main programs-translators are described. They give the opportunity to instantly translate a sentence or a fragment of text into many languages. Online dictionaries contain a large database of words. They are multilingual. But the final translation of a foreign text depends on the translation actions and transformations of a specialist, electronic software only automates general actions.

Vertalen in het vreemdetalenonderwijs: Wikipedia als didactisch hulpmiddel?

This article relates to the field of the didactics of foreign language teaching, and presents the results of a preliminary study carried out in order to determine the extent to which Wikipedia can be used as a didactic aid and learning tool in the translation lectures of foreign language teaching in the Master’s degree in Dutch at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland). In view of the free access to this online encyclopedia, on the one hand, and the richness of texts (in Polish and Dutch) with a cultural content on the other, we investigated to what extent Wikipedia translation can be successfully used as a tool in L2 translation classes. The increasing importance of technological tools (such as electronic dictionaries, terminological databases, and machine translation software) for translation and its use in language teaching, on the one hand, and, on the other, the fact that Polish graduates in Dutch philology often work as translators, were the starting point for this research, which was conducted as a preliminary phase (case study) of a more extensive study into the practical application of Wikipedia translation activities in language acquisition classes.

Speech to multi-language text conversion

Right from the beginning of previous century, researchers have shown interest in areas like Automatic Speech Recognition, Image Processing and Natural Language Processing. The area of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has received attention over the past five decades due to its application in both commercial and military. In the recent times this can be attributed to the advancements in Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Algorithms. ASR takes speech as input and converts it in to text. ASR is employed in electronic dictionaries, Customer Call Centers, Voice Dictation and Query based Information Systems, Speech Transcription, Avionics, Smart Houses and Access Systems and many more areas. ASR can also be used to interact with handicapped people. ASR enables human beings interact with computers using speech rather than using keyboards & mouse (Vimalaand Radha V., 2012). ASR aims to provide natural machine interface where in speech acts input to the machine. Generally, ASR is based on two tasks viz. Identification of Phoneme and Whole-Word Decoding. A relationship between speech signal and speech segment that has dissimilar physical or perceptual features usually termed as phones is established in two steps. The first step deals with dimensionality reduction and second step deals with the estimation of likelihood of each phoneme. In the dimensionality reduction phase, the volume of the speech signal is decreased by extracting the relevant information using task-specific knowledge. In the next phase, the system recognizes the word sequence using a discriminative program. Traditionally ASR systems preferred the Mel frequency Cepstral coefficients (MFCC) for the first phase and Discriminative techniques for the second phase. Over the years ASR systems have evolved from being an integration of multiple trained components to “end-to-end” Deep neural architectures that link speech to text directly. The proposed work implements an MLP with AdaBoost Classifier. The MLP will be used to extract discriminative features from the speech data. Later AdaBoost classifier will map these features to the relevant set of words.

TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES FOR PROFESSIONAL ORIENTATION AT UNIVERSITIES: MODERN TENDENCIES

The article analyzes the current trends in teaching foreign languages for professional purposes at universities, which have become especially widespread in recent years, when Ukraine made the final decision to move along the path of the European integration. The newest effective technologies for the formation of professional competence at classes of foreign language for professional purposes have been characterized; the importance of knowledge of a foreign language in the context of globalization and internationalization of economic relations was noted and the need for high-quality knowledge of a foreign language has been substantiated, which becomes not only a means of obtaining information from primary sources, but also, in the future, a means of establishing business ties with foreign partners. The role of new information technologies and resources in the process of teaching a foreign language, which are becoming increasingly popular, has been emphasized: video conferences, case studies, psychodrama, TED video talks, round tables, brainstorming, podcasting, debates, business games, trainings, etc. etc. Multimedia, interactivity and the use of Internet technologies, messengers, tools and platforms for video communication have been stated as the main approaches to teaching foreign languages for professional purposes at universities in modern conditions; the importance of online communication, which is becoming increasingly relevant in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic has been emphasized. The article describes the possibilities of using the Internet, software, special computer programs, electronic dictionaries, translators, test shells and other multimedia technologies at classes of foreign language for professional purposes in order to search for additional material, prepare educational assignments, check individual assignments, etc. The deductive principle has been characterized as a new strategy for studying foreign languages for professional purposes at higher education institutions, according to which didactic dynamics proceeds from the general to the partial, and, as a result, a student-centric approach is implemented. The systemic communication method has been outlined the basis for the development and development of a mobile communication activity at the professional level.

МОРФОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ КРИТЕРИЙ РАЗГРАНИЧЕНИЯ АБСТРАКТНЫХ И КОНКРЕТНЫХ СУЩЕСТВИТЕЛЬНЫХ: ЭКСПЕРИМЕНТАЛЬНЫЙ ПОДХОД

In this paper, the problem of using a morphological criterion for distinguishing between abstract nouns and other lexico-grammatical categories of the Russian language was studied. The experimental data were obtained as part of the work on compiling an electronic semantic dictionary of Russian abstract nouns with the help of the methodology used to create a similar dictionary for the English language. To date, the dictionary has had 1000 entries, each provided with the abstractness/concreteness index number. During the study, the nouns with the highest degree of abstractness (from 3.5 to 5) were selected. Based on the Large Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language by S.A. Kuznetsov and the Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language by D.N. Ushakov, the plural forms of these nouns and their usage were analyzed. It was revealed that the plural forms of the nouns under consideration can be used in at least one meaning. It was also discovered that the morphological criterion for distinguishing between the lexico-grammatical categories of concreteness/abstractness is not stable and, therefore, turns out to be inapplicable to a number of words.

Problems of creating vertual resources from English

This article provides information on the development of virtual resources for English language learners and the problems that arise in the process based on analytical ideas. We think that there is enough information in e-books and websites to learn English. It is known that a number of works are being carried out in our country in the study of foreign languages, especially English. An electronic reference book, encyclopedias, translators and dictionaries built on the principles of multimedia are amazing. There are various electronic encyclopedias on history, geography, medicine, sports and other fields.

Electronic visual dictionaries in teaching foreign language vocabulary

Electronic visual dictionaries in teaching foreign language vocabulary

Theory and problems of Russian language translation in the field of technology

Due to the rapid development of modern technologies, the translation of scientific and technical terminology is particularly relevant in recent years. Today, scientific and technical translation is not only a type of translation activity, but also a separate applied discipline. And the main task of scientific and technical translation is a brief and accurate presentation of the information and the absence of errors. without any emotional coloring. Moreover, one of the goals is also to create an electronic dictionary that would be able to include multi-component terminology that is applicable in narrower, less studied areas of knowledge. A separate item examines the features of automated translation programs, the selection and analysis of four-component terms, and the frequency of their use. Use in the studied texts, as well as their verification for the presence of a pro-7 message in the text.

ELEMENTS OF COMPUTER LEXICOGRAPHY IN AGRICULTURAL MANAGERS EDUCATION

The development of all spheres of public life is associated with the optimization of information processes (collection, storage, processing, transmission of information), so modern society is called information. Modern information and communication technologies play an important role in teaching a foreign language in non-philological higher education institutions. The organization of education using electronic tools allows significant deepening the professional knowledge and optimizing the educational process for students. Modern lexicography has significantly expanded and strengthened its tools with computer technology for creating and using dictionaries. Special programs (databases, computer files, word processing programs) let us automatically generate dictionary entries, store dictionary information and process it. The purpose of the study is to reveal the specifics of computer lexicography use for training managers in a modern agricultural university. To achieve this goal, a set of methods was used: theoretical: comparison and generalization (study of the degree of scientific development of the term “computer lexicography”), analysis, synthesis and generalization of psychological, pedagogical and methodological literature, theoretical forecasting and modeling of computer lexicography to determine scientific bases of the researched problem; empirical: diagnostic methods (interviews, interviews with teachers, questionnaires, analysis of products of professional activity of teachers, which provide philological disciplines in teaching the agricultural managers). The analysis of the problem showed its insufficient representation in modern scientific works. The article characterizes the role of disciplines of the philological cycle in the professional training of higher education students majoring in “Management”; the term “computer lexicography” is defined and its typology is singled out; the conditions for the introduction of computer lexicography in the educational process of agricultural universities are determined; analyzed software for the introduction of elements of computer lexicography in training the marketing specialists in agricultural universities; the positive and negative aspects of the use of computer lexicography as a component of education are revealed. The article for the first time revealed the specifics of the use of computer lexicography in teaching the philological disciplines for the specialty “Management” at the universities in the agricultural sector. The variety of trends in the introduction of computer lexicography at all stages of teaching the discipline is obvious, and, in particular, the variety of approaches to the creation of electronic dictionaries of different types. The obtained results allow deepening the knowledge of future specialists in the field of management, expanding the interests of higher education seekers, simplifying the work of students with special terminology, systematizing the acquired knowledge, improving the quality of philological disciplines through the introduction of information and communication technologies.

The importance of electronic dictionary of geographical objects in foreign languages in accelerating the socio-economic development of Uzbekistan

The article aims to collect data on the names of shrines, reserves, ancient caves, waterfalls, archaeological sites that meet the requirements of ecotourism by creating a multilingual electronic dictionary of geographical objects of Uzbekistan. It is recommended to identify and systematize by region, develop a system of tourist routes based on geographical names of the area and stimulate the acceleration of innovative development of the region.

Словари русского языка в интернете

The article offers an overview of web resources containing monolingual linguistic dictionaries of the Russian language. It explores Internet lexicography from educational, research, and general cultural perspective. Anonymous sites that disregard the standards of language are abundant. This has a negative impact on the way dictionaries are used in both educational and social sphere. The deformation of ideas about the principles of working with dictionaries is also affecting the professional community of linguists and teachers. Few authoritative resources lose to unauthorized ones, which is obvious from search request results on search engines. This is only logical, since the former have no functional or structural advantages over the latter, but are significantly inferior in completeness. Internet dictionaries have become an essential tool for linguists. The special features of an electronic dictionary as a lexicographic product or as a functionally enriched electronic version of a paper dictionary, have been described theoretically. However, the theoretical description has not been consistently implemented. Large lexicographic projects continue to be accomplished with the priority given to printed dictionaries. What is more, fully-functional Internet versions of classical dictionaries crucial for several branches of linguistics are not available. Besides, early projects on digitizing some of these dictionaries were suspended due to obsolete technical solutions. Sites that have relatively rich functionality in terms of search options and dictionary structure are rare and contain only special-purpose dictionaries. Even those vocabulary projects that are structurally and technically formed as a hypertext lexicographic environment still do not have a web version, e. g., The Dictionary of the 21st Century Russian Language. Under these conditions, benchmarks for the functional organization of the dictionary Internet space are set by non-professional lexicography, primarily Wiktionary, the ironic attitude towards which is gradually weakening in the research community. The absence of a single publicly available authoritative web dictionary of the Russian language impedes the solution of both educational and research tasks related to Internet lexicography. This gap is also a cultural issue and shows Russia as inferior at the backdrop of other national Internet communities.

On the development of a bilingual electronic dictionary of eponyms

On the development of a bilingual electronic dictionary of eponyms

Building Chinese Request Pattern Graphs for Chinese-Korean Translation

This paper aims to describe diverse request patterns in Chinese for the automatic classification and the Chinese-Korean translation of music-request sentences in AI assistant platforms. These patterns are formalized by Local-Grammar Graphs (LGGs), a finite-state grammar, and represented under directed acyclic graphs based on the main function categories. The UNITEX graph editor has been used to construct Chinese LGGs, and the request pattern tags that are proposed for Korean sentences based on DECO Korean Electronic dictionaries was applied. The result of this study has been examined and evaluated by comparison with Google Translate results at the end of the paper. Experimental results prove that the LGG grammar constructed in this paper can effectively cover and annotate various request patterns. This will provide the possibility to generate a large-scale bilingual annotation corpus in the field of music listening.