Corpus-driven Bantu Lexicography Part 1: Organic Corpus Building for Lusoga

Lexicography and Corpus Linguistics

On using spoken data in corpus lexicography

Corpora are increasingly used in lexicography in order to provide good evidence for dictionary statements: the inclusion of spoken data in corpora is generally considered important. This paper raises some issues connected with the use of spoken data. It points out that the extensive differences between written and spoken language have great consequences for dictionary-making. It argues that the...

A Corpus-driven Food Science and Technology Academic Word List

The overarching goal of this study was to create a list of the most frequently occurring academic words in Food Science and Technology (FST). To this end, a 4,652,444-word corpus called Food Science and Technology Research Articles (FSTRA), which included 1,421 research articles (RAs) randomly selected from 38 journals across five sub-disciplines in FST, was developed. Frequency and range-based...

Mining Word Senses from Text for Corpus-Based Lexicography

This paper discusses the problem of automated lexicography. In the corpus-based approach, a lexicographer has to manually group contexts of a target word into clusters in order to identify word senses. When a large number of the contexts is given, this process becomes a tedious and time-consuming task. To overcome this problem, we propose an efficient technique based on unsupervised clustering....

iLex - A tool for Sign Language Lexicography and Corpus Analysis

This paper describes a tool that combines features found in empirical sign language lexicography and in sign language discourse transcription. It supports the user in lexicon building while working on the transcription of a corpus. While it tries to reach a certain level of compatibility with upcoming multimedia annotation tools, it offers a number of unique features considered essential due to...