| Titel: |
Dictionary users do look up frequent words. A log file analysis |
| Personen: | Koplenig, Alexander/Meyer, Peter/Müller-Spitzer, Carolin |
| Jahr: |
2014 |
| Typ: |
Aufsatz |
| Verlag: |
de Gruyter |
| Ortsangabe: |
Berlin/New York |
| In: |
Müller-Spitzer, Carolin (Hg.): Using Online Dictionaries |
| Seiten: |
229-250 |
| Untersuchte Sprachen: |
Deutsch*German |
| Schlagwörter: |
Benutzungsforschung*usage research
einsprachige Lexikografie*monolingual lexicography
Frequenz*frequency
Internet-Lexikografie/Online-Lexikografie*internet lexicography/online lexicography
korpusbasierte Lexikografie*corpus-based lexicography
zweisprachige bzw. mehrsprachige Lexikografie*bilingual/multilingual lexicography
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| Abstract: |
In this paper, we use the 2012 log files of two German online dictionaries (Digital Dictionary of the German Language and the German version of Wiktionary) and the 100,000 most frequent words in the Mannheim German Reference Corpus from 2009 to answer the question of whether dictionary users really do look up frequent words, first asked by de Schryver et al. (2006). By using an approach to the comparsion to log files and corpus data which is completely different from that of the aforementioned authors, we provide empirical evidence that indicates - contrary to the results of de Schryver et al. and Verlinde/Binon (2010) - that the corpus frequency of a word can indeed be an important factor in determining what online dictionary users look up. Finally, we incorporate word class information readily available in Wiktionary into our analysis to improve our results considerably. |