RT Journal Article
T1 The Definition, Presentation and Automatic Generation of Contextual Data in Lexicography
A1 Domínguez Vázquez, María José
K1 Context
K1 Online dictionaries
K1 Data acquisition tools
K1 Contexto
K1 Dicionarios en liña
K1 Ferramentas de adquisición de datos
K1 Recuperación de información
K1 Information retrieval
AB This paper deals with several aspects of context in lexicography. Section 1 briefly mentions some different approaches to the concept context in various fields. Section 2 puts the focus on different uses and perceptions of the concept context in lexicography, contrasting it with related concepts, such as cotext, contextualization and contextual information. A more comprehensive discussion also covers different aspects of the occurrence of the concept context in dictionary research, with specific reference to central aspects of the so-called inner and outer context. Various portals, dictionaries and dictionary entries will illustrate theabove-mentioned approaches. Section 3 approaches the subject from a user perspective. Section 4 addresses the question How can contextual data be extracted or generated? To answer this question, some methods and tools for (automatic) acquisition and analysis of contextual data, – in particular of the local contextual data in terms of Faber and León-Araúz (2016) – are introduced. Examples of these are lexical databases or semantic networks, like WordNet, and corpora, like Sketch Engine, or predictive methods, like Word2vec and similar ones. Some advantages and disadvantages of specific data acquisition tools used for the analysis of local contextual data are indicated. This section also contributes to a more detailed discussion of the automatic generation of the so-called local syntactic-semantic context or word environment, specifically of the building of syntactic-semantic argument patterns and their examples.
PB Oxford University Press
SN 0950-3846
YR 2023
FD 2023-05-05
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32143
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32143
LA eng
NO Domínguez Vázquez, M. J., Gouws, R. H. (2023). The Definition, Presentation and Automatic Generation of Contextual Data in Lexicography. International Journal of Lexicography, Vol. 36, n. 3, pp. 233–259. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecac020
NO This contribution has been developed within the framework of the research project FFI2017-82454-P financed by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Agencia (Spain), Estatal de Investigación (Spain) and Fondos de la Unión Europea ‘Una manera de hacer Europa’ and the Humboldt Research Group of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Xunta de Galicia: ED431B 2020/12).
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026