Do Dictionary Users Really Look Up Frequent Words?-On the Overestimation of the Value of Corpus-based Lexicography

<p>Abstract: An innovative online Swahili–English dictionary project is presented. A careful study of some of the log files attached to this reference work reveals some hitherto unknown as-pects of true dictionary look-up behaviour, which results in the depreciation of the importance o...

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Main Authors: Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, David Joffe, Pitta Joffe, Sarah Hillewaert
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WAT 2011-10-01
Series:Lexikos
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Online Access:http://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/648