Notes on Compiling a Corpus- Based Dictionary

Compiling a Task-Based Corpus

Compiling a Dictionary of an Unwritten Language: A Non- corpus-based Approach

In this article an account is given of the experience in fieldwork by the Dictionary of the Flemish Dialects (Woordenboek van de Vlaamse Dialecten, WVD), Ghent University, Belgium. The focus is on the practical aspects with regard to methods of lexicographic fieldwork. It is maintained that the analysis of 'metalinguistical conversations' with groups of respondents in which their lexicographic ...

Combining Dictionary- and Corpus-Based Concept Extraction

Concept extraction is an increasingly popular topic in deep text analysis. Concepts are individual content elements. Their extraction offers thus an overview of the content of the material from which they were extracted. In the case of domain-specific material, concept extraction boils down to term identification. The most straightforward strategy for term identification is a look up in existin...

Corpus Based PP Attachment Ambiguity Resolution with a Semantic Dictionary

This paper deals with two important ambiguities of natural language: prepositional phrase attachment and word sense ambiguity. We propose a new supervised learning method for PPattachment based on a semantically tagged corpus. Because any sufficiently big sense-tagged corpus does not exist, we also propose a new unsupervised context based word sense disambiguation algorithm which amends the tra...

Building a Corpus-based Historical Portuguese Dictionary: Challenges and Opportunities

Historical corpora are important resources for different areas. Philology, Human Language Technology, Literary Studies, History, and Lexicography are some that benefit from them. However, compiling historical corpora is different from compiling contemporary corpora. Corpus designers have to deal with several characteristics inherent in historical texts, such as: absence of a spelling standard, ...