Collocation, Colligation and Encoding Dictionaries. Part I: Lexicological Aspects

Siepmann, Dirk

doi:10.1093/ijl/eci042

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“…However, there is only limited literature on the subject. Siepmann (2005Siepmann ( , 2006 critically reviews different approaches to collocation, and tries to synthesize recent advances in collocational theory into a coherent framework for lexicological theory and lexicographic practice. He concludes that "the traditional dictionary-making process should be turned on its head: rather than starting from an alphabetical framework it should proceed from a bilingual or multilingual onomasiological research base (Siepmann, 2006)."…”

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Corpora and Collocations in Chinese-English Dictionaries for Chinese Users

Xia¹

2015

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The paper identifies the major problems of the Chinese-English dictionary in representing collocational information after an extensive survey of nine dictionaries popular among Chinese users. It is found that the Chinese-English dictionary only provides the collocation types of v+n and v+n, but completely ignores those of v+adv, adj+n and adv+adj. And as a common practice, this kind of dictionary doesn't give different collocates of synonymous equivalents. Besides, it provides collocational information on the basis of the headword, but not the equivalents. This leads to the suggestions for a new way of representing collocational information in Chinese-English dictionaries. The most important thing is that the Chinese-English dictionary should provide collocational information about the equivalents instead of the headword. All the five types of collocation are given the same status in a dictionary. Moreover, with corpus data, the selective restrictions of the English equivalents in meanings, frequency and semantic prosody should be explicitly represented to dictionary users by glosses, illustrative examples, collocation columns, etc. It is argued that by doing so, the dictionary will better meet the needs of the users.

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Corpora and Collocations in Chinese-English Dictionaries for Chinese Users

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2015

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“…This opposition can also be illustrated with the notion of semantically idiosyncratic multiword expressions as discussed in Chapter 2 (Sag et al, 2002;Kim, 2008;Calzolari et al, 2002;Siepmann, 2005;Siepmann, 2006;Guenthner and Blanco, 2004). In this sense, semantically idiosyncratic multiword expressions are contrasted to productive constructions.…”

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“…The construction comprises of two members -the nominal and the verbal component -, in terms of multiword expressions (see Chapter 2), the noun is the base and the verb is the collocate (Siepmann, 2005;Siepmann, 2006;Sag et al, 2002;Guenthner and Blanco, 2004). However, it is not unequivocal to determine which one is the head of the construction.…”

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“…As a disadvantage of the solution it must be mentioned that this method does not prove economical in the case of paper-based dictionaries (Siepmann, 2005;Siepmann, 2006).…”

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“…Multiword expressions are lexical items that can be decomposed into single words and display lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and/or statistical idiosyncrasy (Sag et al, 2002;Kim, 2008;Calzolari et al, 2002). To put it differently, they are lexical items that contain spaces or "idiosyncratic interpretations that cross word boundaries" (see also Siepmann (2005), Siepmann (2006). Multiword expressions are frequent in language use and they usually exhibit unique and idiosyncratic behavior, thus, they often pose a problem to NLP systems (on the treatment of MWEs in Hungarian, see Oravecz et al (2004) and Váradi (2006)).…”

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