| Titel: |
Dictionary Users do Look up Frequent and Socially Relevant Words. Two Log File Analyses. |
| Personen: | Wolfer, Sascha/Koplenig, Alexander/Meyer, Peter/Müller-Spitzer, Carolin |
| Jahr: |
2014 |
| Typ: |
Aufsatz |
| Verlag: |
Institute for Specialised Communication and Multilingualism |
| Ortsangabe: |
Bolzano/Bozen |
| In: |
Abel, Andrea/Vettori, Chiara/Ralli, Natascia: Proceedings of the 16th EURALEX International Congress: The User in Focus, Bolzano/Bozen, Italien 15 - 19 July 2014 |
| Seiten: |
281-290 |
| Untersuchte Sprachen: |
Deutsch*German |
| Schlagwörter: |
Benutzungsforschung*usage research
Frequenz*frequency
korpusbasierte Lexikografie*corpus-based lexicography
Nutzerbeteiligung*user contribution
|
| Medium: |
Online |
| URI: |
http://euralex.org/category/publications/euralex-2014/ |
| Zuletzt besucht: |
22.10.2018 |
| Abstract: |
We start by trying to answer a question that has already been asked by de Schryver et al. (2006): Do dictionary users (frequently) look
up words that are frequent in a corpus. Contrary to their results, our results that are based on the analysis of log files from two different
online dictionaries indicate that users indeed look up frequent words frequently. When combining frequency information from the
Mannheim German Reference Corpus and information about the number of visits in the Digital Dictionary of the German Language as
well as the German language edition of Wiktionary, a clear connection between corpus and look-up frequencies can be observed. In a
follow-up study, we show that another important factor for the look-up frequency of a word is its temporal social relevance. To make
this effect visible, we propose a de-trending method where we control both frequency effects and overall look-up trends. |