Tasks

1. Give detailed examples, from at least 3 different kinds of dictionary, of:
• metadata
• types of lexical information
2. Create definitions by nearest kind and specific differences for
• hip-hop
• love
• lasagna
3. Describe in detail what is the reality and what are artefacts in
• 3 of the models discussed in the section on models

1. See the following table: html_tabelle_longterm_hw (html, 2 KB)
2. hip-hop: A kind of a youth lifestyle
love: A deep adoring feeling for a person
lasagna: An Italian dish made of layers of large pasta pieces, chopped meat/vegetables and a sauce.

3. Models like a model train, a picture in a dictionary or a photo only represent reality, but are not "real" themselves. A person showed on a photo is only a image, a model train might look like a real train with all its details, but it can't be used the way a real train is used.

• Organisation
  In my opinion both classes and the slides were in general well structured and mostly easy to follow.


• Portfolio
  The idea of a portfolio is a good one, but it might have been better, not to recquire to put it on the web because if some students are not that familiar with running a website, doing HTML and so on, they may have a double work load: do all tasks and exercises for the class and simultaneously investing time to cope with constructing a web page.


• Workload
  Sometimes the tasks were easy, but still recquired a good amount of time, e.g. researching on the web or detailled descriptions of the macrostructure, megastructure, etc. of a particular dictionary. This is a lot of information, which also has to be sorted and written down (plus the "translation" of everything into HTML for the portfolio).
  Sometimes the homework was revised in class, but sometimes it was not. I would have found it better to have a brief revision of homework on every session because it might be that someone thinks his homework to be well done, but is actually not aware of some mistakes and in the worst case only gets to know about them after making the same mistakes in the final exam.