TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice
A1  - Wolfer, Sascha
A1  - Lew, Robert
T1  - The relationship between dictionary look-up frequency and corpus frequency revisited: a log-file analysis of a decade of user interaction with a Swahili-English dictionary
JF  - GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies
N2  - In an earlier publication it was claimed that there is no useful relationship between Swahili-English dictionary look-up frequencies and the occurrence frequencies for the same wordforms in Swahili-English corpora, at least not beyond the top few thousand wordforms. This result was challenged using data for German by a different team of researchers using an improved methodology. In the present article the original Swahili-English data is revisited, using ten years’ worth of it rather than just two, and using the improved methodology. We conclude that there is indeed a positive relationship. In addition, we show that online dictionary look-up behaviour is remarkably similar across languages, even when, as in our case, one is dealing with languages from very dissimilar language families. Furthermore, online dictionaries turn out to have minimum look-up success rates, below which they simply cannot go. These minima are language-sensitive and vary depending on the regularity of the searched-for entries, but are otherwise constant no matter the size of randomly sampled dictionaries. Corpus-informed sampling always improves on any random method. Lastly, from the point of view of the graphical user interface, we argue that the average user of an online bilingual dictionary is better served with a single search box, rather than separate search boxes for each dictionary side.
KW  - lexicography
KW  - online dictionaries
KW  - log files
KW  - corpus frequencies
KW  - Swahili
KW  - English
KW  - language universals
KW  - Online-Wörterbuch
KW  - Lexikographie
KW  - Swahili
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Logdatei
KW  - Korpus <Linguistik>
KW  - User <Benutzer>
KW  - Sprachliche Universalien
Y1  - 2019
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-94205
UR  - http://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/article/view/34284
SN  - 1675-8021
SS  - 1675-8021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.17576/gema-2019-1904-01
DO  - https://doi.org/10.17576/gema-2019-1904-01
VL  - 19
IS  - 4
SP  - 1
EP  - 27
PB  - School of Language Studies and Linguistics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
CY  - Bangi Selangor
ER  -