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Peer reviewedCreswell, Thomas J. – Babel: International Journal of Translation, 1977
An editorialized report of data accumulated in a study of current American practice in the treatment of problems of usage in general purpose dictionaries. Their descriptive objectivity is characterized as "that of the blind men examining the elephant." Such practices reveal little change from that of Samuel Johnson's 1755 English…
Descriptors: Definitions, Dictionaries, Language Patterns, Language Usage
KAHANE, HENRY; KAHANE, RENEE – 1960
PROBLEMS DEALING WITH LEVELS OF SPEECH AND LEVELS OF ANALYSIS IN CONNECTION WITH MODERN GREEK LEXICOGRAPHICAL STUDY WERE DISCUSSED. CONCERNING THE POSSIBLE CONSTRUCTION OF A COMPETENT BILINGUAL DICTIONARY, THE INVESTIGATORS SUGGESTED THAT THE VARIOUS STRUCTURES (NAMELY, PHONOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY, AND SYNTAX) BE TIED TOGETHER TO INVOLVE (1) LISTING IN…
Descriptors: Greek, Language Patterns, Lexicography, Linguistics
Developing a Large Lexical Database for Information Retrieval, Parsing, and Text Generation Systems.
Peer reviewedConlon, Sumali Pin-Ngern; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Important characteristics of lexical databases and their applications in information retrieval and natural language processing are explained. An ongoing project using various machine-readable sources to build a lexical database is described, and detailed designs of individual entries with examples are included. (Contains 66 references.) (EAM)
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Database Design, Databases, Dictionaries
Direct linkCannon, Garland – Meta, 1979
Examines the syntactic aspects of affixation and compounding, processes accounting for the great majority of new word formations documented in "6,000 Words" (1976). (AM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Conference Reports, Form Classes (Languages), Language Patterns
PDF pending restorationWang, Fred Fangyu – 1971
This dictionary is a companion volume to the "Mandarin Chinese Dictionary (Chinese-English)" published in 1967 by Seton Hall University. The purpose of the dictionary is to help English-speaking students produce Chinese sentences in certain cultural situations by looking up the English expressions. Natural, spoken Chinese expressions within the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Definitions, Dictionaries, English
