Electronic Lexicography Research Articles

Lexicography in Digital Humanities-Focused on Trends in Research Studies on Electronic Lexicography-

Lexicography in Digital Humanities-Focused on Trends in Research Studies on Electronic Lexicography-

From e-Lexicography to Electronic Lexicography. A Joint Review

Two recently published books outline the main issues of the current debate on lexi­cography. The first, e-Lexicography edited by Fuertes-Olivera and Bergenholtz in 2011, presents the standpoints of the lexicographical function theory on the future developments of dictionaries, while, in some chapters, current innovative tools are described, tools which allow customizations according to the user's type of need. The second volume, Electronic Lexicography edited by Granger and Paquot in 2012, presents different opposing views on what the dictionaries of the future will look like, such as the linguistic-oriented stance of Hanks and that of Tarp concerning theoretical lexi­cography. The dictionary projects that are described within these pages offer an interesting basis of comparison with those developed by the representatives of the function theory. Keywords: computer assisted language learning (call), corpus lin­guis­tics, customization, databases, dictionary survey, dictionary use, effi­cacy, efficiency, electronic lexicography, information science, lan­guages for special purposes, lexicographical function theory, linguistic theory, monofunctional diction­ary, p-dictionaries, practical lexicog­raphy, usability testing

EURALEX Newsletter

This quarterly Newsletter is intended to include not only official announcements but also news about EURALEX members, their publications, projects, and (it is hoped) their opinions, and news about other lexicographical organizations. Please try to support this by sending newsletter contributions to Anne Dykstra at the email address above. The deadlines for spring (March), summer (June), autumn (September), and winter (December) issues are respectively 15 January, 15 April, 15 July, and 15 October annually. The URL of the EURALEX web site is www.euralex.org EURALEX is also on Facebook. Michael Rundell (Canterbury, UK) joined the Editorial Board of IJL. Please see http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/lexico/editorial_board.html for the complete list of members of the Editorial Board. The third biennial conference on electronic lexicography, eLex 2013, organized by the Institute of the...

Review of Granger & Paquot (2012): Electronic Lexicography

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Electronic Lexicography ed. by Sylviane Granger and Magali Paquot (review)

Electronic Lexicography ed. by Sylviane Granger and Magali Paquot (review)

SeLA – a new project on electronic lexicography

SeLA – a new project on electronic lexicography

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The linguistic fund, that is, the actual lexical inventory of a language, is always considerably larger than the sum total of the contents of dictionaries for that language. It corresponds to all the possibilities of derivation and compounding — with the associated word-formation rules. The exploitation of the latter within machine-readable dictionaries should therefore allow a far more accurate coverage of the linguistic fund, by generating thousands of additional entries, some being more or loss widely attested in their written form, some representing the set of virtual words generated by a productive rule that have not, for one reason or another, been recognized as existing words. Note that the boundary between the two subsets is not clearcut. The conditions which determine whether a generated form will belong to one or the other have not given rise to extensive studies, neither in linguistics nor in lexicology, in spite of their significance for a better understanding of lexical creativity and word-formation processes. The relevance of such phenomena seems to have been greatly underestimated — as is indicated by the fact that no studies have been fulfilled on the topic of words such as médico-légal and franco-québécois. We will demonstrate and illustrate for the French language the shortcomings of the simple compiling method and how ignoring them has led to unnecessary complications in the field of electronic lexicography.

Electronic lexicography

Electronic lexicography