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This article provides an introduction to elexiko, the first German hypertext dictionary to be compiled on a corpus basis, which is currently being developed at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim (IDS). First, a brief account of the design is given, followed by a demonstration of the methods and tools that are being employed to compile it. elexiko will provide not only an improved quantity of lexical information, but also a new quality of information which will be explained and illustrated at different levels of the microstructure of the dictionary. The description of word meaning and use in elexiko will be presented in detail, with a particular focus on the treatment of collocations, ambiguity, vagueness, and the presentation of senses. The development of a theoretically grounded procedure for lexicographic disambiguation is also described. This is then followed by a brief account of the treatment of grammatical details. Finally, issues of usability, the progress of the project and its future perspectives will be considered.
Contextual lexical relations, such as sense relations, have traditionally played an essential role in disambiguating word senses in lexicography, as they offer insights into the meaning and use of a word. However, the description of paradigmatic relations in particular is often restricted to a few types such as synonymy and antonymy. The limited description of various types of relations and the method of presenting these relations in existing German dictionaries are often problematic.
Elexiko, the first German hypertext dictionary compiled exclusively on the basis of an electronic corpus, offers a new way of presenting sense relations, using a variety of approaches to extract the necessary data. In this paper, I will show how elexiko presents a differentiated system of paradigmatic relations including synonymy, various subtypes of incompatibility (such as antonymy, complementarity, converseness, reversiveness, etc.), and vertical structures (such as hyponymy and meronymy). Primary attention, however, will focus on the question of how data for a paradigmatic description is retrieved from the corpus. Whereas a corpus-driven approach is mainly used for various semantic information and a corpus-based method plays an important part in obtaining data for the grammatical description in elexiko, it will be argued that both the corpus-driven and the corpus-based approach can be complementary methods in gaining insights into sense relations. I will demonstrate which results can be obtained by each approach, and advantages and disadvantages of both procedures will be explored in more detail.
As sense relations are context-dependent, it will also be demonstrated how a sense-bound presentation can be realised in an electronic reference work including a system of cross-referencing that illustrates lexical structures and the interrelatedness of words within the lexicon. Finally, I will show how accompanying examples from the corpus and additional lexicographic information help the user to understand contextual restrictions, so that s/he is able to use dictionary information more effectively.
Kontextuelle lexikalische Relationen, insbesondere Sinnrelationen, sind für Sprachinteressierte bei der Textproduktion von besonderem Interesse. Dennoch sind Informationen über diese Wortschatzstrukturen in vielen einsprachigen Wörterbüchern häufig auf Angaben der Synonymie oder Antonymie beschränkt und ihre Beschreibung bzw. Darstellung nur bedingt nutzbar. ELEXIKO, das erste Internetwörterbuch und Informationssystem der deutschen Gegenwartssprache, das ausschließlich korpusgestützt erarbeitet wird, bietet eine differenziertere Präsentation und Beschreibung paradigmatischer Relationen und nutzt unterschiedliche korpusgestützte Verfahren, um sprachliche Daten aus dem zugrunde liegenden Korpus zu extrahieren. Diese Verfahren bringen z. T. neue Erkenntnisse über Wortschatzstrukturen, für die in der Lexikografie nach neuen Beschreibungs- und Darstellungsformen gesucht werden muss. Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit folgenden Fragen: Welche Vorteile bietet die korpusgestützte Lexikografie hinsichtlich der Untersuchung paradigmatischer Sinnrelationen und wie setzt ELEXIKO Erkenntnisse korpusgestützter Studien lexikografisch um? Welche wesentlichen Unterschiede gibt es zu anderen Wörterbüchern, die Wortschatzstrukturen beschreiben? Kritisch werden vor allem folgende Aspekte untersucht: Wie bedeutungsgleich sind Synonyme und wie gegensätzlich sind die in Antonymiewörterbüchern gebuchten Gegensatzwörter wirklich?