High quality word lists as a resource for multiple purposes

TY - GEN

T1 - High quality word lists as a resource for multiple purposes

AU - Quasthoff, Uwe

AU - Goldhahn, Dirk

AU - Eckart, Thomas

AU - Hallsteinsdóttir, Erla

AU - Fiedler, Sabine

PY - 2014/1/1

Y1 - 2014/1/1

N2 - Since 2011 the comprehensive, electronically available sources of the Leipzig Corpora Collection have been used consistently for the compilation of high quality word lists. The underlying corpora include newspaper texts, Wikipedia articles and other randomly collected Web texts. For many of the languages featured in this collection, it is the first comprehensive compilation to use a large-scale empirical base. The word lists have been used to compile dictionaries with comparable frequency data in the Frequency Dictionaries series. This includes frequency data of up to 1, 000, 000 word forms presented in alphabetical order. This article provides an introductory description of the data and the methodological approach used. In addition, language-specific statistical information is provided with regard to letters, word structure and structural changes. Such high quality word lists also provide the opportunity to explore comparative linguistic topics and such monolingual issues as studies of word formation and frequency-based examinations of lexical areas for use in dictionaries or language teaching. The results presented here can provide initial suggestions for subsequent work in several areas of research.

AB - Since 2011 the comprehensive, electronically available sources of the Leipzig Corpora Collection have been used consistently for the compilation of high quality word lists. The underlying corpora include newspaper texts, Wikipedia articles and other randomly collected Web texts. For many of the languages featured in this collection, it is the first comprehensive compilation to use a large-scale empirical base. The word lists have been used to compile dictionaries with comparable frequency data in the Frequency Dictionaries series. This includes frequency data of up to 1, 000, 000 word forms presented in alphabetical order. This article provides an introductory description of the data and the methodological approach used. In addition, language-specific statistical information is provided with regard to letters, word structure and structural changes. Such high quality word lists also provide the opportunity to explore comparative linguistic topics and such monolingual issues as studies of word formation and frequency-based examinations of lexical areas for use in dictionaries or language teaching. The results presented here can provide initial suggestions for subsequent work in several areas of research.

KW - Corpora

KW - Frequency data

KW - Word lists

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M3 - Conference article

AN - SCOPUS:85037062060

SP - 2816

EP - 2819

JO - -

JF - -

T2 - 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014

Y2 - 26 May 2014 through 31 May 2014

ER -