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This paper presents some theoretical and methodological foundations of the research project DICONALE, which concerns the development of an online dictionary of verbal lexemes with a special conceptual-onomasiological access and a paradigmatic structure in response to studies which have shown that conventional dictionaries (both monolingual and bilingual), do not satisfy the specific needs of users involved in the production of texts in foreign language.
This article is concerned with the choice of a corpus to be used as the empirical basis of a bilingual, bidirectional and conceptual learner dictionary of German and Spanish. Several standard corpora as well as web corpora for German and Spanish will be compared with respect to their size, the variety of genres they contain, the time span and geographical areas covered and what kind of search facilities they allow (e.g. word queries based on lemmata rather than on word forms). It will be argued that, when standard corpora fail to meet a particular requirement, web data may provide a useful alternative for lexicographical purposes provided they are both linguistically (i.e. morpho-syntactically) and meta-linguistically tagged.
El análisis de las obras lexicográficas existentes en espanol y en alemán para L2 confirma la necesidad de desarrollar un diccionario pedagógico con una nueva concepción, desde la cual el usuario pueda obtener una mayor información adaptada a sus necesidades. De especial relevancia es el tratamiento de la información específica con el que se puedan mejorar los procesos de producción de textos en L2 mediante un procedimiento que, teniendo en cuenta la diversidad de uso, permita seleccionar un lexema particular de la variedad de posibles lexicalizaciones. En esta contribución se presentan los aspectos teóricos y metodológicos que sustentan el proyecto DICONALE-online. Los cuatro pilares del proyecto en torno al tipo de usuarios, al enfoque conceptual y onomasiológico, a la base empírica de los datos y al modelo de descripción enlazado con un punto de vista contrastivo configuran nuevos retos para el desarrollo de la lexicografía pedagógica que se expondrán en este trabajo a partir de algunos ejemplos.
This article presents a system which allows components of situations referred to by communication verbs to be combined in different ways to yield representations of different reference situation types. These are subsequently used as the basis of a comparison of the corresponding communication verbs in German and Spanish. Verbs referring to the same special reference situation type are shown to constitute a lexical field. Concentrating on the lexical fields of German and Spanish forbid-verbs, specific types of inform-verbs and persuade-verbs, we show that the procedure applied may in principle be used to cover the whole inventory of communication verbs in a bilingual conceptual (i.e. onomasiological) dictionary.
This article presents empirical findings about what criteria make for a good online dictionary, using data on expectations and demands collected in an online questionnaire (N~684), complemented by additional results from a second questionnaire (N-390) which looked more closely at whether respondents had differentiated views on individual aspects of the criteria rated in the first study. Our results show that the classical criteria of reference books (such as reliability and clarity) were rated highest by our participants, whereas the unique characteristics of online dictionaries (such as multimedia and adaptability) were rated and ranked as (partly) unimportant. To verify whether or not the poor ratings of these innovative features were a result of the fact that our subjects are unfamiliar with online dictionaries incorporating such features, we incorporated an experiment into the second study. Our results revealed a learning effect: participants in the learning-effect condition, i.e. respondents who were first presented with examples of possible innovative features of online dictionaries, judged adaptability and multimedia to be more useful than participants who were not given that information. Thus, our data point to the conclusion that developing innovative features is worthwhile but that it should be borne in mind that users can only be persuaded of their benefits gradually. In addition, we present data about questions relating to the design of online dictionaries.