Do Dictionary Users Really Look Up Frequent Words?-On the Overestimation of the Value of Corpus-based Lexicography

Schryver, Gilles‐Maurice de; Joffe, David; Joffe, Pitta; Hillewaert, Sarah

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“…Secondly, in terms of languages dealt with in the Top 15, Dictionaries is heavily biased towards the various historical stages of American (and British) English; IJL is solely interested in present-day (British) English; Lexikos is so theoretical in the top material that it nearly appears to be 'against language', with only De Schryver et al (2006) and Gouws and Prinsloo (1998) doing a serious effort to involve African languages, while Lew et al (2013) produced an eye-tracking study involving Polish; and Lexicography is interested in varieties of Asian English on the one hand, and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) on the other.…”

Section: Publications Of the Continental Associations For Lexicographymentioning

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The Future of Metalexicography: Reaching for the Mesosphere

de Schryver

2023

LEXI

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In this research article, a quantified look is taken at the metalexicographic endeavours of the past half century, starting in 1971. It is argued that the year 2021 represents a tipping point, and for that reason, when illustrations are needed in the article, those are preferably taken from the work of Sue Atkins, who passed away in 2021. It analyses the formation of the various continental lexicography associations, as well as their conferences and linked proceedings, and ends with the current and future role of the global lexicographic alliance. In addition, a comparative bibliometric study is undertaken of the four main journals of our field. It is shown that the number of metalexicographic studies and the impact these have continued to grow, to the point where dedicated tools and databases are currently needed for the efficient examination and use of the now many thousands of conference papers, journal articles, and other publications. A brief section also deals with modern dictionary user research, which is, according to current thinking, subsumed under metalexicography. With and from this vast amount of data, the future direction of metalexicography is extrapolated. The undertaken research is thus very much data-driven, and refrains from thought experiments to arrive at that future. Keywords: lexicography, metalexicography, DSNA, Euralex, Australex, Afrilex, Asialex, Americalex-s, Elex, Globalex, conference proceedings, journal articles, Dictionaries: Journal of the DSNA, Lexicographica, International Journal of Lexicography, Lexikos, Lexicography: Journal of Asialex, bibliometrics, Google Scholar, dictionary use, Elexifinder

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The Future of Metalexicography: Reaching for the Mesosphere

de Schryver

2023

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“…A comprehensive review of the relationship between dictionary searches and corpus frequency in literature has been carried out by De Schryver, Joffe, Joffe and Hillewaert (2006), and the findings show that the relationship between the corpus frequency and dictionary search frequency is weak. For this reason, even the frequency lists derived from natural language data are suggested to be a weak indicator in detecting the search tendencies of dictionary users.…”

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A Lexicological Approach to Look-up Frequency of Turkish Sign Language Dictionary Users

Önal

Makaroğlu

2021

Dil Eğitimi Ve Araştırmaları Dergisi

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From a lexicography perspective, the phenomenon of dictionary lookup frequencies can answer many critical questions on the dictionary users' needs and the relationship between corpus data and look-up tendencies. Although numerous studies have been carried out on the theoretical and functional aspects of look-up frequencies in the field of spoken language to date, there are relatively a few attempts to describe the characteristics of look-up behaviors in sign languages. This paper investigates the relationship between the objective frequency list of the Turkish Sign Language Corpus (Makaroğlu, 2021) and The Contemporary Turkish Sign Language Dictionary (Makaroğlu & Dikyuva, 2017) look-up occurrences. Using an approach to compare corpus data and log files, the results demonstrate that there are very limited similarities between the two and that there is no positive relationship for the percentage of the highest ranked items. In addition, the current study concludes that the corpus-based objective frequency list is a comparatively poor predictor of the dictionary look-up frequency and this difference could be direct result of the morphological structure of the words/signs in TİD (rather simultaneous realization) compared to Turkish (rather agglutinative morphology).

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Building Corpus-based Frequency Lemma Lists

Lindemann

Vicente²

2015

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Do Dictionary Users Really Look Up Frequent Words?-On the Overestimation of the Value of Corpus-based Lexicography

Cited by 21 publications

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The Future of Metalexicography: Reaching for the Mesosphere

The Future of Metalexicography: Reaching for the Mesosphere

A Lexicological Approach to Look-up Frequency of Turkish Sign Language Dictionary Users

Building Corpus-based Frequency Lemma Lists

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