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GDEX: Automatically finding good dictionary examples in a corpus

Authors

RYCHLÝ Pavel HUSÁK Miloš KILGARRIFF Adam RUNDELL Michael MCADAM Katy

Year of publication 2008
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Proceedings of the XIII EURALEX International Congress
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Informatics

Citation
Field Informatics
Keywords good dictionary examples; evaluation of sentence informativeness and readability
Description Users appreciate examples. If a dictionary entry includes contextualized examples of the different senses a word may have, then the user generally gets what they want in a quick and straightforward way. Thus, there are grounds for including lots of examples and contexts. Producing good examples, however, can be labour-intensive, thus, expensive. We automatically found good candidate sentences in a corpus, with which lexicographers could work. The technology used to add examples to an online version of a leading dictionary: we describe and evaluate the project. We consider a range of other ways in which the finding of good examples can bridge the gap between corpuses, dictionaries, and language learning.
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