Electronic lexicography. Practices, methods, tools


Class 1 (20 November 2015)

Subject

  • Electronic, digital, computer. Name, definition, scope
  • Institutions, actors, aids. Introduction to the bibliography of e-lexicography
  • Electronic dictionary. Trouble with definition
  • Electronic dictionary. Better? Different?
  • Organization of classes

The presentation

eLexicography 1 (PDF file)

Basic bibliography

  • Atkins, BTS & Rundell, Michael. 2008. The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.
    Diana, Anna. 2012. "On the Usefulness of Paper and Electronic Dictionaries". In Electronic lexicography, edited by Sylviane Granger and Magali Paquot, 319–41. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Fuertes-Olivera, Pedro A. 2013. "E-Lexicography: The Continuing Challenge of Applying New Technology to Dictionary Making". In The Bloomsbury Companion to Lexicography, edited by Howard Jackson, 323–40. London: Bloomsbury.
  • Granger, Sylviane. 2012. "Introduction: Electronic lexicography - from challenge to opportunity". In Electronic lexicography, edited by Sylviane Granger and Magali Paquot, 1–11. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Heid, Ulrich. 2013. "The Impact of Computational Lexicography". In Supplementary Volume Dictionaries. An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography, Supplementary Volume: Recent Developments with Focus on Electronic and Computational Lexicography, eds. Rufus Hjalmar Gouws, Wolfgang Schweickard, Herbert Ernst Wiegand, and Ulrich Heid, 24–30. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
  • de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice. 2003. "Lexicographers' Dreams in the Electronic-Dictionary Age". International Journal of Lexicography 16 (2): 143–99.
  • Tarp, Sven. 2012. "Theoretical challenges in the transition from lexicographical p-works to e-tools". In Electronic lexicography, ed. Sylviane Granger and Magali Paquot, 107–18. Oxford: Oxford University Press ..
  • Trap-Jensen, Lars. 2013. Researching Lexicographical Practice. In The Bloomsbury Companion to Lexicography, edited by Howard Jackson, 35–47. London: Bloomsbury.
  • Żmigrodzki, Piotr. 2009. Introduction to Polish lexicography. Textbooks and Scripts of the University of Silesia in Katowice 101. Katowice: Publishing House of the University of Silesia.

Works mentioned

  • Béjoint, Henri. 2010. The lexicography of English. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Bourdieu, Pierre. 1976. Le champ scientifique. Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 2 (2): 88-104. doi: 10.3406 / arss.1976.3454.
  • Kuhn, Thomas S. 1962. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Lew, R. 2011. "Studies in Dictionary Use: Recent Developments". International Journal of Lexicography 24 (1): 1-4. doi: 10.1093 / ijl / ecq044.
  • ———. 2015. "Research into the Use of Online Dictionaries". International Journal of Lexicography 28 (2): 232–53. doi: 10.1093 / ijl / ecv010.
  • Martin, Olivier. 2000. Sociologie des sciences. Paris: Nathan.
  • Svensén, Bo. 2009. A Handbook of Lexicography: The Theory and Practice of Dictionary-Making. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Class 2 (December 3, 2015)

Requirements

  1. Send until December 1 (krzysztofn@ijp-pan.krakow.pl) a scan of one entry from any dictionary that has not yet been digitized.
  2. Prepare a sketch of the password microstructure description, with particular emphasis on those elements that should be searched.

Subject

  • Retrodigitization of dictionaries
  • Dictionary entry representation: XML annotation
  • Standards: TEI, LMF

The presentation

eLexicography 2 (PDF file)

Class 3 (4 March 2016)

Subject

  • Corpus at work lexicography: what for? what?
  • Corpus tools: presentation, search
  • Theory and methods of working with the corpus
  • Lexicographic tools: from the raw corpus to the entry (SketchEngine etc.), dictionaries editing systems

The presentation

eLexicography 3 (PDF file)

Requirements

  1. Send until February 26 (krzysztofn@ijp-pan.krakow.pl) XML file with the dictionary entry chosen by you (instructions: see slide 31 from class II).

Classes 4

Subject

  • Computer (machine) dictionaries: definitions, typology, goals
  • Dictionary methods in NLP: speech recognition, spell-checkers, morpho-syntactic tagging
  • WordNet, Princeton WordNet, EuroWordNet, Słowosecja
  • FrameNet
  • Valence dictionaries: Walenty

The presentation

eLexicography 4 (PDF file)

Classes 5

Subject

  • Empirical research on the dictionary user
    • Survey, interview, questionnaire
    • Log analysis
      • case: ANW
      • case: Wiktionary
    • Eye-tracking
      • Tono 2011
      • Lew et al. 2013

The presentation

eLexicography 5 (PDF file)

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