TY  - CHAP
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Wolfer, Sascha
A1  - Koplenig, Alexander
A1  - Meyer, Peter
A1  - Müller-Spitzer, Carolin
T1  - Dictionary users do look up frequent and socially relevant words. Two log file analyses
T2  - Proceedings of the XVI Euralex International Congress, Bolzano/Bozen, 15.-19.07.2014
N2  - We start by trying to answer a question that has already been asked by de Schryver et al. (2006): Do dictionary users (frequently) look up words that are frequent in a corpus. Contrary to their results, our results that are based on the analysis of log files from two different online dictionaries indicate that users indeed look up frequent words frequently. When combining frequency information from the Mannheim German Reference Corpus and information about the number of visits in the Digital Dictionary of the German Language as well as the German language edition of Wiktionary, a clear connection between corpus and look-up frequencies can be observed. In a follow-up study, we show that another important factor for the look-up frequency of a word is its temporal social relevance. To make this effect visible, we propose a de-trending method where we control both frequency effects and overall look-up trends.
KW  - research into dictionary use
KW  - corpus
KW  - log file analysis
KW  - social relevance
KW  - Wörterbuch
KW  - Nutzer
KW  - Worthäufigkeit
KW  - Korpus <Linguistik>
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-31125
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-31125
UR  - https://euralex.org/wp-content/themes/euralex/proceedings/Euralex%202014/euralex_2014_019_p_281.pdf
SP  - 281
EP  - 290
PB  - Institute for Specialised Communication and Multilingualism
CY  - Bozen
ER  -