Principles and Practice of South African Lexicography

Gouws, Rufus H.; Prinsloo, D.J.

doi:10.18820/9781919980911

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“…The importance of the user perspective as the main thrust in the compilation of modern dictionaries has been emphasized in numerous publications, e.g., Gouws and Prinsloo (2005), Tarp (2008Tarp ( , 2011Tarp ( , 2012, Fuertes-Olivera and Tarp (2014). The concept of user-support appropriately puts the user in focus.…”

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Direct User Guidance in e-Dictionaries for Text Production and Text Reception — The Verbal Relative in Sepedi as a Case Study

Prinsloo

Heid

2017

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This article introduces a prototype of a writing (and learning) assistant for verbal relative clauses of the African language Sepedi, accessible from within a dictionary or from a word processor. It is an example of how a user support tool for complicated grammatical structures in a scarcely resourced language can be compiled. We describe a dynamic light-weight tool aimed at combining user-knowledge with text production support, i.e., user-involved interactive text production of the complicated verbal relative in Sepedi. In this article, the focus is on access in a dictionary use situation. Although the tool is intended as a writing assistant to support users in text production; it also satisfies text reception and cognitive needs, but its focus is on solving text production issues related with the interaction between lexical items and complex grammatical structures in the African (Bantu) languages and for learning by users and/or training users in this interaction.

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Section: Direct User Guidance As a Support Techniquementioning

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Direct User Guidance in e-Dictionaries for Text Production and Text Reception — The Verbal Relative in Sepedi as a Case Study

Prinsloo

Heid

2017

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“…Besides frequency, there is also an argument that such a strategy does not leave users in doubt as to the conclusions regarding meaning of derivatives (cf. Gouws and Prinsloo 2005).…”

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“…The success of finding the data depends on the access structure (cf. Gouws and Prinsloo 2005), that has undeniably changed in the era of electronic lexicography. In an electronic dictionary it is often the lemma itself that provides access to the article, and therefore the choice of lemma is a crucial decision the lexicographer has to make.…”

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Revisiting Lemma Lists in Swahili Dictionaries

Wójtowicz

2017

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When compiling a dictionary, a lexicographer has a set of decisions to make -starting with drawing up a lemma list to such issues as formatting a dictionary entry. Relying on corpus data while designing a lemma list and describing entries is standard in present lexicography, but there are still decisions -like the choice of a lemma or how to treat derivatives -that are often intuition-based. This article aims to investigate whether decisions put forward in Swahili dictionaries comply with users' expectations. We analyse log files from the new Swahili-Polish dictionary to investigate why looking up words goes wrong, and evaluate the choice of a lemma and the treatment of derivatives in Swahili dictionaries. Based on such data we intend to expand or modify the existing electronic dictionary to adapt to users' level of grammar and dictionary structure knowledge. During this research we identified a list of lemma lacuna that cause the majority of unsuccessful Swahili searches. The study shows that users know and understand the lemmatisation strategy of the dictionary but also reveals which word forms cause the most problems and how the lemma list of Swahili dictionaries could be expanded. Keywords: DICTIONARY USER RESEARCH, LOG FILES ANALYSIS, SWAHILI-POLISH DICTIONARY, LEMMA LIST, DERIVATIVESOpsomming: Die herbesoek van lemmalyste in Swahili-woordeboeke. Wanneer 'n woordeboek saamgestel word, moet 'n leksikograaf 'n reeks besluite neem -van die opstel van 'n lemmalys, tot kwessies soos die formatering van 'n woordeboekinskrywing. Om staat te maak op korpusdata wanneer 'n lemmalys opgestel en inskrywings beskryf word, is standaardpraktyk in die huidige leksikografie, maar daar is steeds dikwels besluite -soos die keuse van 'n lemma of hoe om afleidings te hanteer -wat op intuïsie gebaseer is. Hierdie artikel beoog om te ondersoek of besluite wat in Swahili-woordeboeke geneem is, voldoen aan gebruikers se verwagtings. Ons analiseer loglêers van die nuwe Swahili-Poolse woordeboek om te ondersoek waarom die opsoek van woorde skeefloop, en evalueer die lemmakeuse en die hantering van afleidings in Swahili-woordeboeke. Ons beoog om die bestaande elektroniese woordeboek op grond van hierdie data uit te brei of te wysig om aan te pas by gebruikers se vlak van kennis ten opsigte van grammatika en woordeboekstruktuur. Tydens hierdie navorsing het ons 'n lys van leemtes ten opsigte van lemmas geïdentifiseer wat die meerderheid van onsuksesvolle Swahili-soektogte veroorsaak. Die navorsing toon dat gebruikers die woordeboek se lemmatiseringstrategie ken en verstaan, maar openbaar ook watter woordvorme die meeste probleme veroorsaak en hoe die lemmalys van Swahiliwoordeboeke uitgebrei kan word.

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“…As in Bantu languages in general (Gouws and Prinsloo 2005a;2005b), lemmatisation remains another critical issue that should be given attention by both practising and theoretical lexicographers in isiXhosa. This pertains to the choice between stem-based and word-based lemmatisation approaches in entering and ordering lemmata.…”

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IsiXhosa Lexicography: Past, Present and Future

Nkomo

Wababa

2013

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Abstract:This article presents a panoramic and critical overview of isiXhosa lexicography and its impact on the intellectualisation of this indigenous South African language. The history of isiXhosa lexicography dates back more than two centuries. However, there still exists a need for dictionaries that serve the language-speaking community as practical tools for addressing diverse communication and learning-oriented needs in the current language policy dispensation. The IsiXhosa National Lexicography Unit (XNLU) is currently working on dictionary projects that attempt to address this situation while at the same time not losing sight of the mandate that the Pan South African National Language Board (PanSALB) placed on all the National Lexicography Units (NLUs). For this to happen, the article argues that the NLU needs to put lexicographic practice into its historical perspective, i.e. conceiving dictionary projects in the light of existing dictionaries and lexicographic traditions in the language. Over and above that, there is a need to take into account the recent developments in lexicographic research, adopt co-operative lexicographic practice and develop a dictionary culture among the isiXhosa-speaking community.Keywords: ISIXHOSA LEXICOGRAPHY, ISIXHOSA DICTIONARIES, XHOSA DICTIONARY PROJECT, NATIONAL LEXICOGRAPHY UNITS, ISIXHOSA NATIONAL LEXICOGRAPHY UNIT, NATIONAL DICTIONARY, SOUTH AFRICAN LEXICOGRAPHY, RESEARCH-BASED LEXICOGRAPHY, DICTIONARY CULTURE Opsomming: IsiXhosaleksikografie: Verlede, hede en toekoms. Hierdie artikel bied 'n panoramiese en kritiese oorsig van die isiXhosaleksikografie en die invloed daarvan op die intellektualisering van hierdie inheemse Suid-Afrikaanse taal. Die geskiedenis van die isiXhosaleksikografie strek vir meer as twee eeue terug. Daar bestaan egter steeds 'n behoefte aan woordeboeke wat die taalsprekende gemeenskap dien as praktiese gereedskap om te voorsien in uiteenlopende kommunikasie-en leer-georiënteerde behoeftes in die huidige taalbeleidsbedeling. Die isiXhosa-Nasionale Leksikografie-eenheid (XNLE) werk tans aan projekte wat probeer om hierdie *

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Principles and Practice of South African Lexicography

Cited by 80 publications

References 38 publications

Direct User Guidance in e-Dictionaries for Text Production and Text Reception — The Verbal Relative in Sepedi as a Case Study

Direct User Guidance in e-Dictionaries for Text Production and Text Reception — The Verbal Relative in Sepedi as a Case Study

Revisiting Lemma Lists in Swahili Dictionaries

IsiXhosa Lexicography: Past, Present and Future

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