Frequency Dictionary French / Dictionnaire de fréquence du français
Thomas Eckart, Daniel Elmiger, Alain Kamber & Uwe Quasthoff
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The Frequency Dictionaries series aims at producing dictionaries
with comparable frequency data for a large number of different
languages. For many of the languages featured in this collection,
this series is the first comprehensive compilation to use a
large-scale empirical base. The dictionaries are available in both
print and electronic versions. Each dictionary provides the 1,000
most frequent word forms in order of frequency and the 10,000 most
frequent word forms in alphabetical order. They provide an
introductory description of the data and the methodological
approach used. In addition, language-specific statistical
information is provided with regard to letters, word structure and
structural changes. The enclosed CD-ROM contains a more
comprehensive version of the dictionary as an e-book. This includes
data on the relative frequency of up to 1,000,000 word forms
presented in alphabetical order. The number of word forms for a
particular language depends on the size and composition of the
corpus used. This list of words (with frequency classes) is also
available as a plain text file on the CD-ROM and is ordered both
alphabetically and by frequency. Using this file, word lists for
various applications can be generated easily. The word forms in the
printed part of the dictionary have been checked carefully by hand
to identify incorrect forms or words that are spelled according to
the new spelling rules. In contrast, the more comprehensive list on
the CD-ROM has been inspected by means of automatic plausibility
criteria alone. For the compilation, comprehensive electronically
available sources of the Leipzig Corpora Collection were used
consistently. The corpora on which the individual frequency
dictionaries are based include newspaper texts, Wikipedia articles
and other randomly collected texts available on the Internet. They
can be accessed online at http://corpora.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/. This series
of dictionaries provides the opportunity to explore comparative
linguistic topics and such monolingual issues as studies on word
formation and frequency-based examinations of lexical areas for use
in dictionaries or language teaching. The statistical results
presented here can offer initial suggestions for several areas of
research. |
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| Citation | Eckart, T., Elmiger, D., Kamber, A., & Quasthoff, U. (2013). Frequency Dictionary French / Dictionnaire de fréquence du français. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag. |
| Type | Livre (Anglais) |
| Année | 2013 |
| Titre de la collection | =Uwe Quasthoff, Sabine Fiedler, Erla Hallsteinsdóttir (eds.): Frequency Dictionaries, vol. 4 |
| Editeur commercial | Leipziger Universitätsverlag (Leipzig) |