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Has lexicography reaped the full benefit of the (learner) corpus revolution?

Published on Jul 27, 2018696 Views

In 1992 Rundell and Stock wrote an extended three-part article on the “corpus revolution”, in which they describe the rise of corpora and their impact on lexicography. Rundell (2008) revisited the top

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Has lexicography reaped the full benefit of the (learner) corpus revolution?00:00
The corpus revolution01:42
Monolingual native-language corpora02:40
Phraseology: Palmer and Hornby03:49
Phraseology: Sinclair04:16
The learner corpus revolution04:56
Learner corpora: targeted languages06:41
Learner corpora and lexicography07:55
Get it right box in MED09:13
What about bilingual dictionaries? 09:57
Why are translation corpora underused in bilingual lexicography?11:13
The key role played by monolingual corpora14:06
Translation corpora are not viable15:05
Objective and focus16:08
Extended view of phraseology17:37
Lexicography: tendency to focus on semantically non-compositional units18:42
General bilingual lexicography: monolingual and bilingual corpora19:24
Why focus on general bilingual dictionaries?19:35
Phraseology in bilingual dictionaries20:22
Word-like grammatical/discursive MWUs22:50
Automatic extraction24:04
Data & methodology (Granger & Lefer 2012)25:16
Corpus/dictionary comparison26:32
Coverage in bilingual dictionaries27:49
En effet: Hachette-Oxford30:50
En effet: Robert & Collins31:14
Translation equivalents: dictionary31:30
Translation equivalents: corpus33:26
Reverso Context: translation candidates35:09
Reverso Context: lexical bundles35:35
Sketch Engine for bilingual lexicography36:15
Pedagogical lexicography: learner corpora37:11
Learner-corpus-based error notes in MLDs37:11
Need for customization38:32
Louvain English for Academic Purposes Dictionary (LEAD) (Granger & Paquot 2015)39:42
Customisation in the LEAD40:51
Discipline customization41:26
L1 customization41:34
Learners’ attested difficulties with academic words41:50
Corpora at all stages of the dictionary-building process42:27
L1 customisation - 144:11
Search by translation: Chinese 类似44:32
L1 customisation - 244:50
L1 customisation - 345:18
One major weakness45:28
Highlighter46:49
Conclusion47:17
Has lexicography reaped the full benefit of the (learner) corpus revolution?47:22
Bilingual lexicography47:43
Pedagogical lexicography49:00
Reasons to be optimistic49:33
Corpora: not the be-all and end-all of lexicography50:50
Thanks for your attention! Questions? Comments? 52:26