Optimizing word sketches for a large lexicographic project
Speaker:
Vladimir Benko
Abstract:
“Word sketches are one-page automatic, corpus-based summaries of a word’s
grammatical and collocational behaviour.” (Kilgarriff et al., 2004)
Designed by Adam Kilgarriff (Brighton) and implemented by Pavel Rychly and
Jan Pomikalek (Brno), Word Sketch Engine (WSE) provides a powerful tool
for coping with abundance of corpus data encountered in compiling
dictionary entries. Depending on the quality of lemmatization and
morphological annotation, WSE can help in analyzing both the frequent and
the scarce lexical phenomena found in the corpus.
Our presentation will comment on a step-by-step modification of the Word
Sketch definitions, so that the resulting Word Sketches would better match
the expectations of lexicographers compiling a multi-volume explanatory
Slovak dictionary.