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Notes from Electronic Lexicography by Sylviane Granger, Magali Paquot
Introduction: Electronic lexicography - from challenge to opportunity
- The first lexical database was Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (1978)
- Six innovations of digital lexicography
- corpus integration
- as upstream - data to be sourced
- as downstream - data to be used
- "no serious compiler would undertake a large dictionary project nowadays without one"
- more and better data
- efficiency of access
- customization
- adaptable; involve manual customization by the user
- adaptive; adapt automatically to the user (based on the historical usage data)
- hybridization
- user input
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