Corpus-Driven Lexicography and the Specialised Dictionary: Headword Extraction for the Parasitic Plant Research Dictionary

By November 17, 2016,
Page 859-864
Author Geoffrey Clive Williams
Title Corpus-Driven Lexicography and the Specialised Dictionary: Headword Extraction for the Parasitic Plant Research Dictionary
Abstract Specialised dictionaries tend to address the needs of language-aware users such as translators, or to be terminological seeking only to standardise usage. This paper looks at some of the problems encountered in using a corpus-directed approach for the design of a specialised pedagogical dictionary. Collocational networks are demonstrated as a objective means of headword extraction. In network building, collocations are seen as statistically significant pairings extracted from within a pre-defined window. The resulting networks represent the thematic environment of the corpus and include both technical and semi-technical words. The advantages and drawbacks ofthese networks in compiling a specialised pedagogical dictionary are discussed.
Session EuraIex Workshop on Restricted Collocations
Keywords
BibTex 
@InProceedings{ELX02-095,
	   author = {Geoffrey Clive Williams},
	   title = {Corpus-Driven Lexicography and the Specialised Dictionary: Headword Extraction for the Parasitic Plant Research Dictionary },
	   pages = {859-864},
	   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th EURALEX International Congress},
	   year = {2002},
	   month = {aug},
	   date = {13-17},
	   address = {København, Denmark},
	   editor = {Anna Braasch and Claus Povlsen},
	   publisher = {Center for Sprogteknologi},
	   isbn = {87-90708-09-1},
	}
Download