Namaeh Farhangistan

Namaeh Farhangistan

An Investigation of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Internet-Based Sources in a Lexicographic Corpus

Document Type : Original Article

Abstract
This article investigates the use of internet as a partial corpus for lexicographic projects. For this purpose, examples are selected from The Comprehensive Persian Dictionary to show that albeit a large linguistic corpus had been already available to the compilers, they had but to use internet-based citations due to their proximity to everyday language in common use. Having shown the significance of such data, the present author then draws upon Prat & Fuertes Olivera (2016) to explore not only the advantages and disadvantages of internet evidence but the active role compilers can play in using such resources. The author subsequently examines the strategies employed in The Comprehensive Persian Dictionary and provides example entries toward a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis.
Keywords
Lexicographic corpus
Internet corpus
Internet linguistic evidence
Internet evidence extraction
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