This study looks at how well the leading monolingual English learners’ dictionaries in their online versions cope with misspelled words as search terms. Six such dictionaries are tested on a corpus of misspellings produced by Polish, Japanese, and Finnish learners of English. The performance of the dictionaries varies widely, but is in general poor. For a large proportion of cases, dictionaries...

There are two major types of lexicography: Practical lexicography and Theoretical lexicography. In the past, glossaries were compiled to facilitate use religious books. At beginning, compilation has been done by Christian priests in Europe Hindu India. English Dictionaries introduced West as a result Glossaries for information sources. Also, Sanskrit India compiling Nighandus (volumes Compiled ...

Previous work concerned with the identification of word translations from text collections has been either based on parallel or on comparable corpora of the respective languages. In the case of comparable corpora basic dictionaries have been necessary to form a bridge between the languages under consideration. We present here a novel approach to identify word translations from a single monoling...

This paper undertakes an empirical investigation into the treatment of tripartite Italian idioms in selected monolingual Italian and bilingual Italian-English dictionaries. Tripartite idioms are phrasal constructs typically arranged into one of the three following syntactic forms: V+N+N, V+ADJ+N or V+N+ADJ. From an organisational viewpoint, these idioms are somewhat more problematic for lexicog...

The article analyzes the importance of development lexical competence within various glottodidactic methods. In particular, it is highlighted how, at present, teaching vocabulary has definitively freed itself from a subordinate, almost accessory, position with respect to grammar teaching. then focuses on role dictionary in learning and necessary skills for its use. It lack, Italian L2, pedagogi...

The growing avaibility of dictionaries in electronic form calls for a model sophisticated enough to represent the richness of entries and enable complex information retrieval. Electronic dictionaries are a special kind of object, intermediary between a text and a database. Textual models are not powerful enough to handle complex information retrieval, and conventional database models are not fl...