The topic of the lecture was computational lexicography and how to create a dictionary. During the lecture we also came across concordances and the KWIC concordance.

Quiz

1. What is a KWIC concordance?
2. Which are the two main components of lexicon construction based on empirical data?

1. KWIC concordance is aspecial kind of corpus-based dictionary. For each word of a corpus is given its context of occurrence (e.g. left/right contexts)
2. Data acquisition (especially if it is a dictionary or a database of a hardly explored language or of a special dialect) and external lexical evaluation (you have to evaluate the utility for the user)