Vernetzungsstrukturen digitaler Wörterbücher. Neue Ansätze zur Analyse / Cross-linking structures of digital dictionaries. New approaches for analysis / La structure des liens croisés dans les dictionnaires électroniques

Carolin Müller-Spitzer; Sascha Wolfer

doi:10.1515/lexi-2015-0009

Published by De Gruyter November 3, 2015

Vernetzungsstrukturen digitaler Wörterbücher. Neue Ansätze zur Analyse / Cross-linking structures of digital dictionaries. New approaches for analysis / La structure des liens croisés dans les dictionnaires électroniques

Carolin Müller-Spitzer and Sascha Wolfer

From the journal Lexicographica

https://doi.org/10.1515/lexi-2015-0009

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Abstract

In this contribution, we present a novel approach for the analysis of cross-reference structures in digital dictionaries on the basis of the complete dictionary database. Using paradigmatic items in the German Wiktionary as an example, we show how analyses based on graph theory can be fruitfully applied in this context, e. g. to gain an overview of paradigmatic references as a whole or to detect closely connected groups of headwords. Furthermore, we connect information about cross-reference structures with corpus frequencies and log file statistics. In this way, we can answer questions such as the following ones: Are frequent words paradigmatically linked more closely than others? Are closely linked headwords or headwords that stand more solitary in the dictionary visited significantly more often?

Keywords: Mediostrukturen; Vernetzungsstrukturen; Graphentheorie; Benutzungsforschung; Logfileanalyse / mediostructures; cross-reference structures; graph theory; research into dictionary use; log file analysis

Published Online: 2015-11-3

Published in Print: 2015-11-13

Vernetzungsstrukturen digitaler Wörterbücher. Neue Ansätze zur Analyse / Cross-linking structures of digital dictionaries. New approaches for analysis / La structure des liens croisés dans les dictionnaires électroniques

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