2017
DOI: 10.5788/27-1-1412
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L2 Writing Assistants and Context-Aware Dictionaries: New Challenges to Lexicography

Abstract: 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 eve… Show more

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“…WriteAway autocompletes writers' sentences with words taken from a corpus. Write Assistant, aimed at Danish users of English, integrates a bilingual Danish-English dictionary and predictive text as an add-in to Microsoft Word (Tarp, Fisker & Sepstrup, 2017).…”
Section: Research Backgroundmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…WriteAway autocompletes writers' sentences with words taken from a corpus. Write Assistant, aimed at Danish users of English, integrates a bilingual Danish-English dictionary and predictive text as an add-in to Microsoft Word (Tarp, Fisker & Sepstrup, 2017).…”
Section: Research Backgroundmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Write Assistant, the series of bilingual writing assistants developed by the Danish company Ordbogen A/S, is a good example of both the new possibilities and the new challenges which lexicography experiences today. Its functionality has been extensively explained by Tarp et al (2017). Hence, in this section we will only discuss some aspects that are either new or relevant to our topic.…”
Section: Visions and Functions Of Write Assistantmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Como consecuencia, los datos lexicográficos que se ven en los artículos propuestos son los que se almacenarán en la base de datos que sostiene el diccionario, pero no necesariamente los que se presentarán de inmediato al usuario. Esta flexibilidad tiene especial relevancia debido a la próxima introducción de una nueva generación de asistentes de escritura que incorporan diccionarios «inteligentes» capaces de «observar» a sus usuarios y ofrecerles soluciones que se adaptan a cada contexto concreto; ver Tarp et al (2017).…”
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