Titel: Building an electronic combinatory dictionary as a writing aid tool for researchers in biology
Personen:Volanschi, Alexandra/Kübler, Natalie
Jahr: 2010
Typ: Aufsatz
Verlag: UCL (Presses universitaires de Louvain)
Ortsangabe: Louvain-la-Neuve
In: Granger, Sylviane/Paquot, Magali (Hgg.): eLexicography in the 21st century. New challenges, new applications. Proceedings of eLex, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique, 22 - 24 October 2009
Seiten: 343-354
Untersuchte Sprachen: Englisch*English
Schlagwörter: Fachlexikografie*specialised lexicography/LSP lexicography
Fremdspracherwerb*foreign/second language acquisition
Kollokationen/Phraseologismen/Wortverbindungen*collocations/phraseologisms/multi word items
Lexikographische Anwendungen/Applikationen*lexicographic tools/applications
Abstract: The present paper presents a methodology to explore the combinatorial properties of terms belonging to biology, based on the analysis of a large corpus of scientific articles. The research has led to the production of a writing aid tool meant to help non-native authors write scientific papers in English. The tool design is based on the evaluation of potential users' needs, which was undertaken by sending out a questionnaire to the teaching and reasearch staff at the Life Sciences Department at the University Paris Diderot. The paper describes the corpus used, the first stage of data extraction, i.e. collocation extraction, as well as the specifications of the web interface allowing users to query data.