Bilingual Lexicography and Corpus Methods. The Example of German-Basque as Language Pair

Lindemann, David

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.10.645

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“…There are several areas of study of the norm in linguistics, but each of these areas considers only one aspect of this problem. We believe that there is a need to combine these areas of research (Lindemann, 2013;Issa et al, 2021). A new direction in linguistics should be built based on an integrated approach to studying the norm: from the history of its formation, change (evolution) to the study of the current state.…”

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Modern tendencies of development of norms of Ukrainian language

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The article contains an overview of new trends in Ukrainian literary and colloquial language development in historical retrospect and dynamics. In particular, changes in the lexical structure of language, new phenomena in word formation, morphology and syntax, innovative shifts in styles, etc., in the context of communicative strategies and tactics, rhetorical, stylistic, and linguistic norms and techniques adopted in various spheres of communication are considered. The article is aimed at forming ideas and gaining knowledge in the field of the theory of the modern Ukrainian language in those sections that are distinguished by the greatest significance of the theoretical approach (grammar, syntax), as well as skills and abilities in those parts that require an applied application (culture of oral and written communication, stylistics, rhetoric, genre studies, the principles of spelling). With the dominant idea of the pluralism of norms and an orientation towards their non-rigid codification, there is also an idea of the loosening of the norms of the literary language, of the grave and even dangerous condition experienced by the modern Ukrainian literary language.

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“…In the case of Basque, a medium-density minority language with less than one million speakers and a co-official legal status in parts of the territory it is spoken and a relatively minuscule web size (see Lindemann 2013), noteworthy open resources are available: The source files of Hiztegi Batua (Euskaltzaindia 2008), and the Basque WordNet (EusWN, see Pociello, Agirre and Aldezabal 2011), that are both published under Creative Commons licences.…”

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Creating a German–Basque Electronic Dictionary for German Learners

Lindemann

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In this paper, we introduce the new electronic dictionary project EuDeLex, which is currently being worked on at UPV-EHU University of the Basque Country. 1 The introduction addresses the need for and functions of a new electronic dictionary for that language pair, as well as general considerations about bilingual lexicography and German as foreign language (GFL). The language pair German-Basque, which can be called less-resourced or medium-density, does not have any lexicographical antecedents that could be updated or adapted. Nevertheless, existing monolingual lexicographical databases and a newly created German-Basque parallel corpus support the editing process of the new dictionary. We explain our workflow in macrostructure and microstructure design and editing, and propose a first iteration of the online user interface and publishing process.

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“…As far as we know, there are a few research projects (e.g. Lindemann, 2013) investigating the potential in automatic bilingual dictionary compilation, but there are no larger scale projects exploiting these techniques we are aware of. The aim of the present dissertation is to explore to what degree these relatively novel procedures are compatible with the usual practice and underlying theories of lexicography.…”

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The usability of language technology methods and parallel corpora in bilingual lexicography: quantifying translational equivalence

Héja¹

2014

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Creating bilingual dictionaries is very demanding in terms of human effort. From the compilation of the headword list to finding correct and relevant translations and providing information on how to use them in idiomatic target language sentences, lexicographic knowledge and experience are required. Although mono-and bilingual corpora are increasingly present in the process, human effort is still in the center and makes the creation of dictionaries a labor-intensive endeavor. This is particularly true when it comes to lesser-used language pairs, where finding competent bilingual speakers is already a challenge.The scope of the present thesis is to investigate to what extent state of the art language technology methods and resources can be exploited to help lexicographers construct bilingual dictionaries. As the main result of our research, we propose and evaluate a complete methodology to automatically produce "proto-dictionaries" for lesser-used language pairs, and show that not only our method presents economical advantages by reducing the amount of human effort needed, but it also addresses several methodological difficulties or inconsistencies with success. Moreover, a customizable dictionary query interface is presented whose features make the proto-dictionaries useful not only for lexicographers, but also for end users: Language learners as well as advanced users, such as professional translators.The methodology we propose relies on parallel corpora as a resource and exploits word alignment to produce translation candidates. We suggest that conditional probabilities, as estimated via the word alignment process, can be conceived as modelling translation relation between SL and TL units. We argue that, from a theoretical viewpoint, conditional probability is very well fit to quantify translation relation because of its ability to capture the gradual, asymmetrical nature of it.Moreover, the method implicitly produces a partition over the senses of the SL lemma by assigning different translation candidates to different contexts. This implicit feature addresses an omnipresent problem in lexicographic work: The subjective nature of word sense definitions and distinctions. We show via different word sense disambiguation experiments that the more we rely on contextual information, the less sense characterizations are prone to subjectivity.The second part of the thesis deals with the methodology of creating a proto-dictionary from a list of translation candidates obtained from the corpus. Proto-dictionaries result from a filtering of candidates based on three parameters: SL and TL lemma frequencies and the conditional probabilities. These parameters were set via a series of experiments and evaluations, at the end of which a Hungarian-Slovenian and a Hungarian-Lithuanian proto-dictionary were available. On top of that, we confirmed that our method allows to easily produce the reversed dictionaries, which gave us the Slovenian-Hungarian and the Lithuanian-Hungarian resources as well. Contextual information is also pro...

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Bilingual Lexicography and Corpus Methods. The Example of German-Basque as Language Pair

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

Modern tendencies of development of norms of Ukrainian language

Modern tendencies of development of norms of Ukrainian language

Creating a German–Basque Electronic Dictionary for German Learners

The usability of language technology methods and parallel corpora in bilingual lexicography: quantifying translational equivalence

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