Dictionaries and lexicography in the AI era

R Lew - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2024 - nature.com
This paper examines the implications of AI and machine translation on traditional
lexicography, using three canonical scenarios for dictionary use: text reception, text …

Dictionary users in the digital revolution

R Lew, GM De Schryver - International Journal of Lexicography, 2014 - academic.oup.com
This contribution examines the digital revolution in lexicography from the perspective of the
dictionary user. We begin with an observation that in the information age the status of the …

L2 writing assistants and context-aware dictionaries: New challenges to lexicography

S Tarp, K Fisker, P Sepstrup - Lexikos, 2017 - scielo.org.za
Dictionaries are increasingly integrated into other tools designed to assist the reading,
writing and translation of texts. Write Assistant is a newly developed tool aimed at assisting …

Online dictionaries: expectations and de mands

C Müller-Spitzer, A Koplenig - Using online dictionaries, 2014 - degruyter.com
This chapter presents empirical findings on the question which criteria are making a good
online dictionary using data on expectations and demands collected in the first study (N …

Electronic dictionaries

A Dziemianko - The Routledge handbook of lexicography, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter discusses the concept of electronic dictionaries for humans following mainly De
Schryver's definition. The technical medium gives a shape to a dictionary and can be paper …

Multimodal definition: the multiplication of meaning in electronic dictionaries

X Liu - Lexikos, 2015 - ajol.info
With the popularity of electronic dictionaries, multimodality plays an increasingly important
role in lexicography. To broaden the horizons of e-dictionary definitions, this article argues …

[PDF][PDF] Exploiting a corpus to compile a lexical resource for academic writing: Spanish lexical combinations

M Alonso-Ramos, M García-Salido… - Proceedings of eLex …, 2017 - coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es
This paper provides insight into ongoing research focusing on the exploitation of Spanish
academic corpora in order to build up a lexical tool addressed to novice writers of academic …

A practical academic reading and vocabulary screening test as a predictor of achievement in first-year university students: Implications for test purpose and use

J Heeren, D Speelman… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Language proficiency is assumed to play a role in achievement in tertiary education. When
requirements for university entrance are low or demographic changes in the population take …

Empirical data on contexts of dictionary use

C Müller-Spitzer - Using online dictionaries, 2014 - degruyter.com
To design effective electronic dictionaries, reliable empirical information on how dictionaries
are actually being used is of great value for lexicographers. To my knowledge, no existing …

[PDF][PDF] Writing assistants and automatic lexical error correction: word combinatorics

L Wanner, S Verlinde… - Electronic lexicography in …, 2013 - lirias.kuleuven.be
Genuine lexical writing assistants that attempt to detect lexical errors such as
miscollocations are traditionally less common in Computer Assisted Language Learning …