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Those of you who like dictionaries (whether in paper or electronic format) and who want to know how they are built, how senses can be discovered in corpora, how examples can be selected and how words, collocations and word usage can be described will
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I am glad to announce the publication of “ Practical Lexicography: A Reader ” (OUP, January 2008) , a collection of over 20 papers dealing with hot topics such as word senses and word sense disambiguation, corpus design, dictionary definitions and examples,
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J’ai eu l’occasion de lire récemment un livre sur les dictionnaires bilingues et d’en écrire un compte-rendu qui vient d’être publié dans le numéro de juillet 2007 de Kernerman Dictionary News ( http://kdictionaries.com/kdn/kdn15/kdn15.html ). Ce numéro
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Did you know that you can download dictionaries for your Microsoft Reader? http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/dictionaries.asp You can download the Encarta Pocket Dictionary (a monolingual English dictionary), as well as a series of bilingual dictionaries
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Dictionaries are fascinating objects. A little over a year ago, the editor-in-chief of the « Revue Française de Linguistique Appliquée » (French Journal of Applied Linguistics) asked me to guest-edit a special issue of this journal on dictionaries. This
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