Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/13579
Title: Leximancer software driven lexicography for dictionaries in the digital age
Contributor(s): Kivunja, Charles  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2013
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/13579
Abstract: As we enter the digital age, and dictionaries increasingly take on online and mobile electronic variants, the way dictionaries will be made is bound to change. The management of massive amounts of data that need to be synthesised and compiled into a comprehensive dictionary will benefit from new data mining software called Leximancer. This paper discusses the functional capacities of Leximancer which can mine massive amounts of qualitative data and help the researcher make sense of the textual contents of such data in super-electronic time frames. The software has been used by the author of this paper and other qualitative researchers in pedagogy to investigate the thematic and semantic meaning embedded in large quantities of data but its lexicographic potential is yet to be explored. Drawing upon the realised efficiencies and effectiveness of this software in the above research, this paper suggests that Leximancer appears to offer a lot of promise in facilitating the demanding tasks of lexicography as an interdisciplinary research field.
Publication Type: Conference Publication
Conference Details: ASIALEX 2013: 8th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography, Denpasar, Bali, 20th - 22nd August, 2013
Source of Publication: Lexicography and Dictionaries in the Information Age: Selected papers from the 8th ASIALEX International Conference, p. 320-324
Publisher: Airlangga University Press
Place of Publication: Denpasar, Bali
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 080608 Information Systems Development Methodologies
080399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
100503 Computer Communications Networks
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 460905 Information systems development methodologies and practice
460399 Computer vision and multimedia computation not elsewhere classified
400604 Network engineering
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 890205 Information Processing Services (incl. Data Entry and Capture)
890202 Application Tools and System Utilities
890201 Application Software Packages (excl. Computer Games)
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 220499 Information systems, technologies and services not elsewhere classified
220401 Application software packages
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: E1 Refereed Scholarly Conference Publication
Publisher/associated links: http://asialex2013.org/proceedings.html
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