COURSE SPECIFICATION
COURSE TITLE
Lexicography
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LANE204
204 ‫لين‬
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PRE-REQUISITES
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Brief contents, to be posted on university site and documents(4-5 lines):
The course is given for 2 hours per week for a semester and both types of lexicography is devoted to the
course. Students are encountered to theoretical as well as practical Lexicography. Lexicography is the
branch of applied linguistics concerned with the design and construction of lexica for practical use.
Lexica can range from the paper lexica or encyclopedia designed for human use and shelf storage to the
electronic lexica used in a variety of human language technology systems, from palmtop word
databases through word processors to software for read back (by speech synthesis in Text-to-Speech,
TTS, systems) and dictation (by automatic speech recognition, ASR, systems). At a more generic level,
a lexicon may be a generic lexicographic knowledge base from which lexica of all these different kinds
can be derived automatically.
Course objectives:
1) To introduce students to Lexicography .
2) To help students grasp the Lexical conception of words and practical use.
3) To enrich students appreciation of word processors to software.
:Course Outcome
Knowledge
Students study the practical Lexicography .
Cognitive Skills
Interpersonal skills and responsibilities
(Group participation, leadership, personal responsibility, ethic and moral behaviour, capacity for self
directed learning)
Analysis and Communication Skills
Students will practice more of the Lexicography - the design and construction of lexica for practical
use. They compute electronic lexica used in a variety of human language technology systems
Evaluation:
Mid–tem tests, seminar, discussions, participation, pairs and groups activities, and final examination
Prescribed Book:
Boguraev & Briscoe 1989
Boguraev, Bran & Ted Briscoe, eds. (2000). Computational Lexicography for Natural Language
Processing. London: Longman.
Other Information Sources:
Cruse, D. A. (1997). Lexical Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fillmore, Charles J. (1971). Types of lexical information. In: Steinberg & al. (1971),
Semantics: An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. 1978.
Handke, Jürgen (1995). The Structure of the Lexicon: Human versus Machine. Berlin: Mouton de
Gruyter.
Marslen-Wilson, William, ed. (1996). Lexical Representation and Process. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT
Press.
Timetable of Syllabus
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Title
Sections
Introduction to Lexicography - branch of applied linguistics
concerned with the design and construction of lexica for practical use.
Lexicography concerned with the linguistic theory and methodology
2 for describing lexical information, often focusing specifically on
Unit I
Unit I
issues of meaning.
Traditionally, lexicology has been mainly concerned with `lexis',
i.e. lexical collocations and idioms, and lexical semantics
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the structure of word fields and meaning components and relations.
More examples of schools of lexicology
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lexical semantics was conducted separately from study of the
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syntactic, morphological and phonological properties of words
Linguistic theory in the 1990s has gradually been integrating these
dimensions of lexical information.
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Midterm Test 1
Practical lexicon development can be located along a scale from
large-scale software engineering projects at the one end, to on9 demand creation of prototypes for empirical work on linguistic
questions on the other.
Many software tools have been developed over the years for working
1 with text databases, and a number of programme generations can be
0 observed, from mainframe languages for string processing through
PC based
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III Unit
VI Unit
Unit V
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Unit VI
Unit VI
1 tools to tools with graphical user interfaces (GUIs), both in local
stand alone and client-server applications, and globally on the
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World-Wide-Web.
Midterm Test 2
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1 The lexicographic tools include string processing languages such as
SNOBOL, TUSTEP
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1 as well as UNIX shell tools for processing text streams, proprietary
or local DOS tools, and more recently tools based on GUIs in
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windows environments on PCs, Macs
1 UNIX workstations, or as platform independent applications such as
hyperlexica for the World Wide Web
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Final Exam
Unit VII
Unit VIII
Unit IX
Unit X