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This paper shows how corpora and related tools can be used to analyse and present significant colligational patterns lexicographically. In German, patterns such as das nötige Wissen vermitteln and sein Wissen unter Beweis stellen play a vital role when learning the language, as they exhibit relevant idiomatic usage and lexical and syntactic rules of combination. Each item has specific semantic and grammatical functions and particular preferences with respect to position and distribution. An analysis of adjectives, for example, identifies preferences in adverbial, attributive, or predicative functions.
Traditionally, corpus analyses of syntagmatic constructions have not been conducted for lexicographic purposes. This paper shows how to utilise corpora to extract and examine typical syntagms and how the results of such an analysis are documented systematically in ELEXIKO, a large-scale corpus-based Internet reference work of German. It also demonstrates how this dictionary accounts for the lexical and grammatical interplay between units in a syntagm and how authentic corpus material and complementary prose-style usage notes are a useful guide to text production or reception.
Der Beitrag stellt Arbeiten des Projekts Usuelle Wortverbindungen am Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim vor. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei neue Perspektiven, die sich für die elektronische Phraseographie aus der korpusanalytischen Auswertung sprachlicher Massendaten ergeben. Eine wichtige Methode ist die statistische Kookkurrenzanalyse, die u.a. dazu dient, feste Wortverbindungen zu extrahieren und typische Kontexte vorzustrukturieren. Auf dieser Basis lässt sich der tatsächliche Gebrauch fester Wortverbindungen in einer quantitativ und qualitativ neuen Dimension erfassen und lexikografisch beschreiben. Die heutigen technologischen Möglichkeiten können des Weiteren für neue und differenziertere Präsentationsformen angepasst an unterschiedliche Rezeptionsbedürfnisse genutzt werden. Das UWV-Projekt beschreitet auch im Bereich der Internet-Lexikografie neue Wege, was anhand ausgewählter Beispiele gezeigt wird.
In this paper we outline our corpus-driven approach to detecting, describing and presenting multi- word expressions (MWEs). Our goal is to treat MWEs in a way that gives credit to their flexible nature and their role in language use. The bases of our research are a very large corpus and a Statistical method of collocation analysis. The rich empirical data is interpreted linguistically in a structured way which captures the interrelations, patterns and types of variances of MWEs. Several levels of abstraction build on each other: surface patterns, lexical realizations (LRs), MWEs and MWE patterns. Generalizations are made in a controlled way and in adherence to corpus evidence. The results are published online in a hypertext format.
The Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (OWID Online German Lexical Information System) is a lexicographic Internet portal for various electronic dictionary resources that are being compiled at the Institute for the German Language (Institut für Deutsche Sprache, IDS). The main emphasis of OWID is on academic lexicographic resources of contemporary German. Presently, the following dictionaries are included in OWID: a dictionary of contemporary German called elexiko, a dictionary of neologisms, a small dictionary of collocations, and a discourse dictionary covering the lexemes that establish the discourse about “guilt” in the early post-war era 1945-1955. In the near future (2010/2011), several additional dictionaries will be published in OWID: a Textbook of German Communication Verbs, a Valency Dictionary of German Verbs, two further discourse dictionaries – one about the “democracy” discourse around 1968, the other covering the keywords of the German reunification 1989/1990. Moreover, 300 entries from a corpus-based project on proverbs will be integrated into OWID. Thereby, OWID is a constantly growing resource for academic lexicographic work of the German language.
Altogether, OWID is a special kind of dictionary portal owing to its content and its design, namely the integration of the various dictionaries, the access possibilities and the presentation features. With OWID, we try to establish a dictionary net where the different resources are jointly accessible not only by headwords, but also on the microstructural level. Prerequisite for these common access- and navigation-possibilities across the various dictionaries is the same concept for the lexicographic data model which we put into practice in OWID. Data from all dictionaries in OWID are structured according to a tailor-made, fine-granular, XML-based data model. In this data model, similar content is modelled similarly, dictionary related differences are preserved.
The main tasks for the future are to enhance OWID with further dictionary resources, to improve the inner access structures so that they exhaust the possibilities of the data model, and to customize the layout of the dictionaries as well as the search options according to the user’s needs
This paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the combination of automated information and lexicographically interpreted information in online dictionaries, namely elexiko, a hypertext dictionary and lexical data information system of contemporary German (http://www.owid.de/ elexiko_/index.html), and DWDS, a digital dictionary of 20,h century German (http://www.dwds.de). Examples of automatically derived information (e.g. automatically extracted citations from the underlying corpus, lists on paradigmatic relations) and lexicographically compiled information (e.g. information on paradigmatic partners) are provided and evaluated, reflecting on the need to develop guidelines as to how computerised information and lexicographically interpreted information may be combined profitably in online reference works.
The representation of semantic relations between word senses of different entries in a dictionary is subject to a number of consistency requirements. This paper discusses the issue of maintaining and accessing consistent information on cross-references between sense-related items in electronic dictionaries from a mainly text-technological point of view. We present a number of consistency criteria for cross-referencing related senses and propose a practical approach to handling sense relations in an online dictionary. Our proposal is currently being tested in a large ongoing online dictionary project for German called elexiko. We focus on three different aspects of the dictionary development and editing process where consistency is an important issue: lexicographic data modelling, implementation of a lexicographic database system for an electronic dictionary, and development of practical tools for the lexicographer’s workbench.