Evaluating a 12-million-Word Corpus as a Source of Dictionary Data. (3rd August 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wójtowicz, Beata
• Is Part Of: International journal of lexicography. Volume 31:Number 3(2018)
• Page Start: 327
• Page End: 341
• Publication Date: 2017-08-03
• Subjects: bilingual lexicography -- corpus lexicography -- dictionary use -- African languages; Lexicography -- Periodicals; 413.028
• DOI: 10.1093/ijl/ecx011
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0950-3846

Abstract

Abstract: In this paper, we aim to evaluate the 12-million-word Helsinki Corpus of Swahili as a source of dictionary data used, among others, for the creation of the lemma list for a new Swahili-Polish dictionary. We analyse the dictionary log-files in order to answer a question already asked by De Schryver et al. (2006), Koplenig et al. (2014) and Trap-Jensen (2014) about whether dictionary users actually look up frequent words. However, the issue of utmost importance to us is whether a ten-thousand-item frequency list derived from a 12-million-word corpus meets the needs of a Swahili-Polish dictionary user.