Electronic Lexicography

This book brings together leading professional and academic lexicographers to report on current developments in the deployment of electronic means in the planning, writing, and dissemination of dictionaries. Every major aspect of electronic lexicography is covered by the book including dictionary types (general and specialized dictionaries, monolingual and multilingual dictionaries, collocation dictionaries, sign dictionaries, collaborative dictionaries) in a range of formats (CD-ROM, web-based, handheld), dictionary-writing systems, integration of corpora, The book also addresses the implications of electronic dictionary-making for lexicographic theory and illustrates how the new developments are integrated into innovative dictionary projects like Wiktionary. The perspective of the user is considered throughout the book, including how electronic dictionaries take account of user needs and whether and how users take advantages of the new features afforded by the electronic medium. This state-of-the-art account of developments in one of the most vibrant areas of reference publishing and language research will appeal to everyone concerned with current lexicography.

Sylviane Granger is Professor of English Language and Linguistics and Director of the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at the Catholic University of Louvain. Her current research interests focus on the integration of corpus data into a range of user-oriented tools, in particular electronic dictionaries and writing aids. Her latest publications include Phraseology: An interdisciplinary perspective (co-edited with F. Meunier) and International Corpus of Learner English (Granger et al. 2009).


Magali Paquot is a research fellow at the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Catholic University of Louvain. Her current research interests focus on academic vocabulary, phraseology and pedagogical lexicography. Her latest publications include Academic Vocabulary in Learner Writing (2010) and A Taste for Corpora (co-edited with F. Meunier, S. De Cock and G. Gilquin, 2011).

1. Introduction: Electronic Lexicography: From challenge to opportunity, Sylviane Granger
part I: Lexicography at a Watershed
2. The Road to Automated Lexicography: An editor's viewpoint, Michael Rundell
3. Corpus Tools for Lexicographers, Adam Kilgarriff and Iztok Kosem
4. Word Meaning and Word use: Corpus evidence and electronic lexicography, patrick Hanks
5. Dictionary Writing Systems and Beyond, Andrea Abel
6. Theoretical Challenges in the trnsitionFrom Lexicographical p-works to e-tools, Sven Tarp
7. Electronic Lexicography for Lesser-resourced Languages: the South African context, Danie Prinsloo
Part II: Innovative Dictionary Projects
8. Data Access Revisited: The Interactive Language Toolbox, Serge Verlinde and Geert Peeters
9. The LEAD Dictionary-cum-writing Aid: An integrated dictionary and corpus tool, Magali Paquot
10. The ARTES Bilingual LSP Dictionary: From collocation to higher order phraseology, Natalie Kubler & Mojca Pecman
11. Encoding Collocations in the DiCoInfo: From formal to user-friendly representations, Marie-Claude L'Homme, Benoit Robichaud & Patrick Leroyer
12. The Challenges of Wordnet-based pedagogical Lexicography: The Transpoetika Dictionary, Toma Tasovac
13. Wiktionary: A new rival for expert-built lexicons? Exploring the possibilities of collaborative lexicography, Christian meyer and Iryna Gurevych
14. The Electronic Lexicographical Treatment of Sign Languages: The Danish Sign Language Dictionary, Jette H. Kristoffersen and Thomas Troelsgard
Part III: Electronic Dictionaries and Their Users
15. On the Usefulness of Paper and Electronic Dictionaries, Anna Dziemianko
16. How can we make Electronic Dictionaries More Effective?, Robert Lew
17. Alternative edictionaries: Uncovering dark practices, Hilary Nesi
18. Meeting the Needs of Translators in the age of e-lexicography: Exploring the possibilities, Lynne Bowker
19. On the Usability of Free Internet Dictionaries for Teaching and Learning Business English, Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera
20. Online Dictionary Use: Key findings from an empirical research project, Carolin Muller-Spitzer, Alex Koplenig, and Antje Topel
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index