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Revisiting Lemma Lists in Swahili Dictionaries

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dc.abstract.enWhen 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 paper 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, 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 could expand the lemma list of Swahili dictionaries.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorWójtowicz, Beata
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-25T19:26:20Z
dc.date.available2024-01-25T19:26:20Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.financeNie dotyczy
dc.description.volume27
dc.identifier.doi10.5788/27-1-1415
dc.identifier.issn1684-4904
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/118580
dc.identifier.weblinkhttp://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1415
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationlinguistics
dc.relation.ispartofLexikos
dc.relation.pages561-577
dc.rightsClosedAccess
dc.sciencecloudnosend
dc.subject.endictionary user research
dc.subject.enlog files analysis
dc.subject.enSwahili-Polish dictionary
dc.subject.enlemma list
dc.subject.enderivatives
dc.titleRevisiting Lemma Lists in Swahili Dictionaries
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication