Corpus-based Headword Selection Procedures for LSP Word Lists and LSP Dictionaries

In compiling both Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) word lists foreign language learners and LSP dictionaries, the headword-selection process is of paramount importance. dictionaries will function effectively if they contain appropriate terms register items, i.e. lexical items that end users need. this paper, we first present corpus-based lists, with special emphasis on how were compiled. process, make-up size specialised corpus are important, as choice headword selection methods used. Among possible criteria frequency, keyness, occurrence, range, dispersion, well some non-corpus linguistic more rarely applied. A greater variety used methods, frequency typically solely The article compares procedures before discussing can mutually inform one another.