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The computer aided exemplification

The paper deals with a simple and verified method applicable in lexicography. Compiling an English-Croatian Marine Engineering Dictionary for 14 years the two authors have faced the problem of an efficient collection of clear and concise examples that can help clarifying the headword meanings. The problem has been solved by means of simple tools: a PC with MICROSOFT WORD, SOFTLEX (or any other WINDOWS compatible lexicographic software), and a scanner and the scanning software ABBY FREE READER 7.0 PROFESSIONAL EDITION. The earlier techniques used by the authors incorporated both a combination of visual search of thousands of pages and manual recording of examples and the use of TEXTPACK, a lexicographic package. The former method was time consuming as it required permanent concentration and was therefore was also time limited. The TEXTPACK, on the other hand, displayed only 50 (later 150) characters from each side of the headword which was frequently insufficient for understanding of the complete example. Therefore, the headword thorough and clear meaning was too often in dispute and the displayed examples incomplete and unclear. To explain the proposed method of the computer aided exemplification the author has illustrated and textually explained the whole sequence of search, import and processing operations, so that any potential user may readily apply it.

Cmputer aided exemplification ; dictionary

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