Korpusnaja lingvistika, častotnaja i tolkovaja leksikografija : vektory vzaimodejstvija
Corpus linguistics, frequency and explanatory dictionaries : interaction vectors

russian

2025

volume 73, issue 3

frequency dictionaries   high-frequency words as semantic multipliers   semantic component analysis of a 100,000-word dictionary   synthesis of explanatory and frequency dictionaries in the Macmillan dictionary (2007)

Slavistično društvo Slovenije
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

With the overall growth in the number of corpora, their volumes and diversity, there is a specialization of corpora depending on their targeted content. Electronic corpora of the first generation (with a volume of approximately 100-million-word tokens), called or perceived as “national” or “state”, retain a relative balance of subcorpora and a broad social science and humanities audience. As the volumes of later corpora increase, there is a specialization of their purpose along two vectors: 1) content-oriented monitor (replenished) megacorpora of newspaper and magazine texts; the target groups of corpus content of this class include sociologists and political scientists, economists, demographers, journalists, etc. 2) thematically unlimited (non-selective) corpora accumulating digitalized texts (printed and electronic) used in computer science as raw material for “natural language processing” (machine pre-training 436 Slavistična revija, letnik 73/2025, št. 3, julij–september of neural networks) and creation of statistical algorithms for self-linking words into adequate verbal responses of artificial intelligence. Two most significant innovative developments in corpus lexicography are named: 1) synthesis of explanatory and frequency dictionaries in the Macmillan dictionaries (2007) and later Collins, Longman; 2) component semantic analysis of a 100,000-word dictionary using the 2,500 most frequent lexemes in Macmillan (2007) as semantic components

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