| Titel: |
Leximancer software driven lexicography for dictionaries in the digital age |
| Personen: | Kivunja, Charles |
| Jahr: |
2013 |
| Typ: |
Aufsatz |
| Verlag: |
The Asian Association for Lexicography |
| Ortsangabe: |
Kyoto |
| In: |
Kwary, Deny A./Wulan, Nur/Musyahda, Lilla (Hgg.): Lexicography and Dictionaries in the Information Age. Proceedings of the ASIALEX 8th International Conference 2013. Bali, Indonesia, 20 - 22 August 2013 |
| Seiten: |
320-324 |
| Schlagwörter: |
Internet-Lexikografie/Online-Lexikografie*internet lexicography/online lexicography
Publikationsform*form of publication
Redaktionssystem*lexicographic editor
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| URI: |
https://asialex.org/pdf/Asialex-Proceedings-2013.pdf |
| Zuletzt besucht: |
19.10.2020 |
| Abstract: |
As we enter the digital age, and dictionaries increasingly take on online and mobile electronic variants, the way dictionaries will be made is bound to change. The management of massive amounts of data that need to be synthesised and compiled into a comprehensive dictionary will benefit from new data mining software called Leximancer. This paper discusses the functional capacities of Leximancer which can mine massive amounts of qualitative data and help the
researcher make sense of the textual contents of such data in super-electronic time frames. The software has been used by the author of this paper and other qualitative researchers in pedagogy to investigate the thematic and semantic meaning embedded in large quantities of data but its lexicographic potential is yet to be explored. Drawing upon the realised efficiencies and effectiveness of this software in the above research, this paper suggests that Leximancer appears
to offer a lot of promise in facilitating the demanding tasks of lexicography as an interdisciplinary research field.
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