Electronic Lexicography

Edited by Sylviane Granger and Magali Paquot

State-of-the-art chapters on theory, dictionary-writing systems, corpus use, innovative dictionary projects
Covers the subject from all perspectives including the user's
Written by the leading figures in the field
Accessibly written with minimum use of jargon

Electronic Lexicography

Edited by Sylviane Granger and Magali Paquot

Description

This book brings together leading professional and academic lexicographers to report on current developments in the deployment of electronic means in the planning, writing, and dissemination of dictionaries. Every major aspect of electronic lexicography is covered by the book including dictionary types (general and specialized dictionaries, monolingual and multilingual dictionaries, collocation dictionaries, sign dictionaries, collaborative dictionaries) in a range of formats (CD-ROM, web-based, handheld), dictionary-writing systems, integration of corpora, The book also addresses the implications of electronic dictionary-making for lexicographic theory and illustrates how the new developments are integrated into innovative dictionary projects like Wiktionary. The perspective of the user is considered throughout the book, including how electronic dictionaries take account of user needs and whether and how users take advantages of the new features afforded by the electronic medium. This state-of-the-art account of developments in one of the most vibrant areas of reference publishing and language research will appeal to everyone concerned with current lexicography.

Electronic Lexicography

Edited by Sylviane Granger and Magali Paquot

1. Introduction: Electronic Lexicography: From challenge to opportunity, Sylviane Granger
part I: Lexicography at a Watershed
2. The Road to Automated Lexicography: An editor's viewpoint, Michael Rundell
3. Corpus Tools for Lexicographers, Adam Kilgarriff and Iztok Kosem
4. Word Meaning and Word use: Corpus evidence and electronic lexicography, patrick Hanks
5. Dictionary Writing Systems and Beyond, Andrea Abel
6. Theoretical Challenges in the trnsitionFrom Lexicographical p-works to e-tools, Sven Tarp
7. Electronic Lexicography for Lesser-resourced Languages: the South African context, Danie Prinsloo
Part II: Innovative Dictionary Projects
8. Data Access Revisited: The Interactive Language Toolbox, Serge Verlinde and Geert Peeters
9. The LEAD Dictionary-cum-writing Aid: An integrated dictionary and corpus tool, Magali Paquot
10. The ARTES Bilingual LSP Dictionary: From collocation to higher order phraseology, Natalie Kubler & Mojca Pecman
11. Encoding Collocations in the DiCoInfo: From formal to user-friendly representations, Marie-Claude L'Homme, Benoit Robichaud & Patrick Leroyer
12. The Challenges of Wordnet-based pedagogical Lexicography: The Transpoetika Dictionary, Toma Tasovac
13. Wiktionary: A new rival for expert-built lexicons? Exploring the possibilities of collaborative lexicography, Christian meyer and Iryna Gurevych
14. The Electronic Lexicographical Treatment of Sign Languages: The Danish Sign Language Dictionary, Jette H. Kristoffersen and Thomas Troelsgard
Part III: Electronic Dictionaries and Their Users
15. On the Usefulness of Paper and Electronic Dictionaries, Anna Dziemianko
16. How can we make Electronic Dictionaries More Effective?, Robert Lew
17. Alternative edictionaries: Uncovering dark practices, Hilary Nesi
18. Meeting the Needs of Translators in the age of e-lexicography: Exploring the possibilities, Lynne Bowker
19. On the Usability of Free Internet Dictionaries for Teaching and Learning Business English, Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera
20. Online Dictionary Use: Key findings from an empirical research project, Carolin Muller-Spitzer, Alex Koplenig, and Antje Topel
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index

Electronic Lexicography

Edited by Sylviane Granger and Magali Paquot

Author Information

Sylviane Granger is Professor of English Language and Linguistics and Director of the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at the Catholic University of Louvain. Her current research interests focus on the integration of corpus data into a range of user-oriented tools, in particular electronic dictionaries and writing aids. Her latest publications include Phraseology: An interdisciplinary perspective (co-edited with F. Meunier) and International Corpus of Learner English (Granger et al. 2009).

Magali Paquot is a research fellow at the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Catholic University of Louvain. Her current research interests focus on academic vocabulary, phraseology and pedagogical lexicography. Her latest publications include Academic Vocabulary in Learner Writing (2010) and A Taste for Corpora (co-edited with F. Meunier, S. De Cock and G. Gilquin, 2011).

Contributors:

Sylviane Granger, University of Louvain
Magali Paquot, University of Louvain
Andrea Abel, Institute for Specialised Communication and Multilingualism, EURAC
Lynne Bowker, University of Ottawa
Anna Dziemianko, Adam Mickiewicz University
Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera, University of Valladolid
Iryna Gurevych, Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt
Patrick Hanks, visiting professor Universities of Wolverhampton and the West of England
Adam Kilgarriff, Director of Lexical Computing Ltd.
Alexander Koplenig, Institute for German Language, Mannheim
Iztok Kosem, Institute for Applied Slovene Studies
Jette Hedegaard Kristoffersen, Centre for Sign Language
Natalie Kübler, Paris Diderot University
Marie-Claude L'Homme, University of Montreal
Christian M. Meyer, Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Carolin Müller-Spitzer, Institute for German Language, Mannheim
Patrick Leroyer, University of Aarhus
Robert Lew, Adam Mickiewicz University
Hilary Nesi, Coventry University
Mojca Pecman, Paris Diderot University
Geert Peeters, Leuvan Language Institute
Danie Prinsloo, University of Pretoria
Benoît Robichaud, Observatoire de Linguistique Sens-Texte
Michael Rundell, Editor-in-Chief, Macmillan Dictionaries
Sven Tarp, University of Aarhus
Toma Tasovac, Centre for Digital Humanities, Belgrade
Antje Töpel, Institute for German Language, Mannheim
Thomas Troelsgård, Centre for Sign Language
Serge Verlinde, Leuven Language Institute