L2 Writing Assistants and Context-Aware Dictionaries: New Challenges to Lexicography
Dictionaries are increasingly integrated into other tools designed to assist the reading, writing and translation of texts. Write Assistant is a newly developed tool aimed at assisting people writing in a second language. It feeds on big data taken in from corpora and digital dictionaries. The paper...
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2017-11-01
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| author | Sven Tarp Kasper Fisker Peter Sepstrup |
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| description | Dictionaries are increasingly integrated into other tools designed to assist the reading, writing and translation of texts. Write Assistant is a newly developed tool aimed at assisting people writing in a second language. It feeds on big data taken in from corpora and digital dictionaries. The paper discusses the philosophy behind the tool, the techniques applied, its empirical basis and functionality, as well as the extent to which it helps its users. It shows how the tool makes it possible to shorten and even skip some phases in the traditional information-search process and allows its user to maintain the focus on the message to be written without the need to consult external information resources. The paper shows how the underpinning technology gives birth to a new type of dictionary that is context-aware and provides a more personalised user service. But it also indicates that future dictionaries need to be conceptionally adapted to the specific tool in order to optimize the service. All this poses new challenges to lexicography. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8a762ce42ae94b4a81ec95f54ad00aed2022-12-22T02:25:11ZafrWoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WATLexikos1684-49042224-00392017-11-012749452110.5788/27-1-1412L2 Writing Assistants and Context-Aware Dictionaries: New Challenges to LexicographySven Tarp0Kasper Fisker1Peter Sepstrup2University of StellenboschOrdbogen A/SOrdbogen A/SDictionaries are increasingly integrated into other tools designed to assist the reading, writing and translation of texts. Write Assistant is a newly developed tool aimed at assisting people writing in a second language. It feeds on big data taken in from corpora and digital dictionaries. The paper discusses the philosophy behind the tool, the techniques applied, its empirical basis and functionality, as well as the extent to which it helps its users. It shows how the tool makes it possible to shorten and even skip some phases in the traditional information-search process and allows its user to maintain the focus on the message to be written without the need to consult external information resources. The paper shows how the underpinning technology gives birth to a new type of dictionary that is context-aware and provides a more personalised user service. But it also indicates that future dictionaries need to be conceptionally adapted to the specific tool in order to optimize the service. All this poses new challenges to lexicography.https://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1412information toolintegrated dictionariesl2 writinginformation-search processempirical resourcescorporalanguage modelcontext-aware dictionarieswrite assistant |
| spellingShingle | Sven Tarp Kasper Fisker Peter Sepstrup L2 Writing Assistants and Context-Aware Dictionaries: New Challenges to Lexicography Lexikos information tool integrated dictionaries l2 writing information-search process empirical resources corpora language model context-aware dictionaries write assistant |
| title | L2 Writing Assistants and Context-Aware Dictionaries: New Challenges to Lexicography |
| title_full | L2 Writing Assistants and Context-Aware Dictionaries: New Challenges to Lexicography |
| title_fullStr | L2 Writing Assistants and Context-Aware Dictionaries: New Challenges to Lexicography |
| title_full_unstemmed | L2 Writing Assistants and Context-Aware Dictionaries: New Challenges to Lexicography |
| title_short | L2 Writing Assistants and Context-Aware Dictionaries: New Challenges to Lexicography |
| title_sort | l2 writing assistants and context aware dictionaries new challenges to lexicography |
| topic | information tool integrated dictionaries l2 writing information-search process empirical resources corpora language model context-aware dictionaries write assistant |
| url | https://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1412 |
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