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Knowing a Word vs. Accessing a Word: Wordnet and Word Association Norms as Interfaces to Electronic Dictionaries

SINOPALNIKOVÁ Anna and SMRŽ Pavel. Knowing a Word vs. Accessing a Word: Wordnet and Word Association Norms as Interfaces to Electronic Dictionaries. In: Proceedings of the Third International WordNet Conference, GWC 2006. Brno: Masaryk University, 2006, pp. 265-272. ISBN 80-210-3915-9.
Czech title
Knowing a Word vs. Accessing a Word: Wordnet and Word Association Norms as Interfaces to Electronic Dictionaries
Type
conference paper
Language
english
Authors
Keywords

wordnet, psycholinguistics

Abstract

Various groups of users, ranging from professional translators and writers to language learners, use dictionaries in their everyday work. The electronic form of the dictionaries facilitated and accelerated the access to their content considerably and brought new ways of the dictionary search. However, the current products are still unable to offer a full-featured search by meaning which would be advantageous in many cases. This paper describes our experiments on access-supporting enhancements of electronic dictionaries that are based on wordnets and word association norms. Results of evaluation experiments for two European languages - English and Russian - are presented. The comparison with the fulltext- and corpus-based access methods shows that the proposed ways of the dictionary search often provide the best word-access strategy.

Published
2006
Pages
265-272
Proceedings
Proceedings of the Third International WordNet Conference, GWC 2006
Conference
3rd International Global WordNet Conference, Jeju Island, KR
ISBN
80-210-3915-9
Publisher
Masaryk University
Place
Brno, CZ
BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB8003,
   author = "Anna Sinopalnikov\'{a} and Pavel Smr\v{z}",
   title = "Knowing a Word vs. Accessing a Word: Wordnet and Word Association Norms as Interfaces to Electronic Dictionaries",
   pages = "265--272",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third International WordNet Conference, GWC 2006",
   year = 2006,
   location = "Brno, CZ",
   publisher = "Masaryk University",
   ISBN = "80-210-3915-9",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/8003"
}
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