Review of John Considine. Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries.

Dictionary notes play an important role in description of a title unit. A note is abbreviated word or phrase which gives certain characteristic to the language Traditionally, different types are distinguished: grammatical, stylistic, sectoral, chronological, etc. The object this research lexicographic can be justified if it demarks usage sphere and peculiarities

One important consideration in dictionary-making has been that of space. To conserve space in paper dictionaries, a number of principles, strategies and conventions have been employed. With the gradual transition of the dictionary to the electronic medium, some of these strategies and conventions have lost or changed their significance. For one thing, it is no longer sufficient to speak of dict...

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the temporal aspect of terminology focusing on the dictionary's impact on terms. We used women's studies terms as data and examined the changes of their values of five automatic term recognition (ATR) measures before and after dictionary publication. The changes of precision and recall of extraction based on these measures were also examined. The measures...

Syllable based text compression is a new approach to compression by symbols. In this concept syllables are used as the compression symbols instead of the more common characters or words. This new technique has proven itself worthy especially on short to middle-length text files. The effectiveness of the compression is greatly affected by the quality of dictionaries of syllables characteristic f...