Dictionary Writing System (DWS) + Corpus Query Package (CQP): The Case of "TshwaneLex"

Schryver, G-M De; Pauw, G De

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Section: Corpus-based Lexicography In a Nutshellmentioning

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“…Using a corpus is not a once-off process, but rather a continuous one. This process is greatly facilitated by software where the dictionary writing system (DWS) and the corpus query package (CQP) are seamlessly integrated (De Schryver and De Pauw 2007).As noted in Section 1, in addition to a dictionary's macrostructure(s) and microstructure(s), most dictionaries also contain extra matter material. Numerous examples exist of dictionaries where the extra matter was clearly written in Compiling a Corpus-based Dictionary Grammar: An Example for Northern Sotho 39 isolation, and if not to that extreme, at least not with a full integration in mind.…”

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Compiling a corpus-based dictionary grammar: an example for northern Sotho

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Taljard²

2010

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Abstract:In this article it is shown how a corpus-based dictionary grammar may be compiled -that is, a mini-grammar fully based on corpus data and specifically written for use in and integrated with a dictionary. Such an effort is, to the best of our knowledge, a world's first. We exemplify our approach for a Northern Sotho mini-grammar, to be included into a Northern Sotho-English dictionary. Keywords: LEXICOGRAPHY, DICTIONARY, CORPUS, FREQUENCY, MIDDLE MATTER, DICTIONARY GRAMMAR, NORTHERN SOTHO (SESOTHO SA LEBOA)Samenvatting: Een corpusgebaseerde woordenboekgrammatica samenstellen: een voorbeeld voor Noord-Sotho. In dit artikel wordt aangetoond hoe een corpusgebaseerde woordenboekgrammatica kan samengesteld worden -dit is, een minigrammatica die al z'n gegevens rechtstreeks uit een corpus haalt en die speciaal geschreven werd om in een woordenboek gebruikt te worden, en er ook volledig mee geïntegreerd is. Zo'n poging is, voor zover ons bekend, een wereldprimeur. We illustreren onze aanpak voor een minigrammatica van het NoordSotho, bedoeld om gebruikt te worden in een Noord-Sotho-Engels woordenboek. Sleutelwoorden: LEXICOGRAFIE, WOORDENBOEK, CORPUS, FREQUENTIE, MID-DENWERK, WOORDENBOEKGRAMMATICA, NOORD-SOTHO Using corpora beyond a dictionary's central section(s)It is now widely accepted that the use of electronic corpora has become indispensable in modern dictionary making, and this on a variety of levels. But just on how many levels? The macrostructural and microstructural levels immediately spring to mind, and most attention in the scientific literature has indeed also gone to aspects revolving around the corpus-based selection of lemma signs on the one hand, and the corpus-based construction of articles attached to those lemma signs on the other. Any self-respecting dictionary, however, contains much more than 'just' the central text. Good dictionaries also comprise extra matter, invariably distributed across front, middle and back matter sections. If one is serious about corpus-based lexicography, then the extra matter should also be rooted in corpus data. One can come a long way by making sure there is a one-to-one correlation between the central (corpus-based) section(s) and the extra matter (cf. below), but during practical dictionary making this quickly proves not to be sufficient. In this article the focus will be on the creation of a corpus-based dictionary grammar, exemplified for Northern Sotho. The core principles of corpus-based lexicography will be briefly reviewed in order to set the stage, but that review is merely incidental and the reader is referred to Sinclair (1987) and Corréard (2002) for what remain to this day the best collections on the topic. Corpus-based lexicography in a nutshellIn corpus-based lexicography, the main arbiter during the creation of the (initial) macrostructure is the list of frequencies attached to the lemmatised list of inclusion candidates. Clearly, there are as many lemmatisation policies as there are dictionary teams compiling dictionaries, but it remains comm...

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Compiling a corpus-based dictionary grammar: an example for northern Sotho

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“…the stem approach for verbs and the word approach for nouns (e.g. Kriel 1983, de Schryver 2007. For a detailed discussion of the difference between stem lemmatization and word lemmatization and the implications they have on user-friendliness, the reader is referred to Prinsloo (2009).…”

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“…So there was never an intention to make it commercially viable. However, for the sake of objectivity a superficial comparison to current stateof-the-art expectations of DWSs as set out by, for instance, Joffe and De Schryver (2004) and by De Schryver and De Pauw (2007) may be opportune. It was stated before that the software does not provide for a Corpus Query Package as at the time of its creation electronic text corpora hardly existed in Khoekhoegowab. Most outstanding is the absolute separation of the pre-dictionary database stage and the dictionary compilation phase.…”

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“…Van Sterkenburg 2003: 195 ff. andDe Schryver andDe Pauw 2007 on the development of digital resources). Even if electronic text corpora had been produced by scanning, they would have been of only limited value as the revised and standardised orthography of Khoekhoegowab had not yet established itself in the literature and lemmas would hence not have been recognised automatically.…”

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Designing a noun guesser for part of speech tagging in Northern Sotho

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Prinsloo

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South African Journal of African Languages

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In this article, we describe an element of a suite of computational tools for assigning word-class tags (as a preparation for part of speech (POS) tagging) to word forms in unrestricted Northern Sotho texts. POS-tagging is a step towards a linguistic analysis of the texts, which in turn allows for advanced data extraction.The tool component that is described, identifies (and classifies) noun forms. Several types of linguistic knowledge are used to recognize nouns that are not contained in the noun lexicon of the system. These include the relationship between singular and plural noun prefixes, knowledge about noun derivation, and data about the co-occurrence of the candidate with concords, pronouns and adjectives in a local context.Our implementation is a symbolic, voting-based process: together, all tests determine whether a candidate is a noun; accuracy on unseen test data is around 92%.

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Dictionary Writing System (DWS) + Corpus Query Package (CQP): The Case of "TshwaneLex"

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Compiling a corpus-based dictionary grammar: an example for northern Sotho

Compiling a corpus-based dictionary grammar: an example for northern Sotho

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Designing a noun guesser for part of speech tagging in Northern Sotho

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