Resumen de Investigating Semi-Automatic Procedures in Pattern-Based Lexicography
Laura Giacomini, Paolo Vito Dimuccio Failla
In this contribution we present existing pattern description models with different degrees of computerization, discuss their potential from the perspective of the creation of an e- lexicographic resource for language learners, introduce the parameters of pattern accuracy and ontology reliability for a qualitative evaluation of the results, and make some proposals for a future quantitative evaluations. The models discussed are a) Hanks’s CPA and the Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs (PDEV), b) methods employed by Tecling (Technologies for Linguistic Analysis, Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso, Chile) and Verbario, a pattern database of Spanish verbs, and c) an ongoing lexicographic project for the compilation of a learner’s dictionary of Italian linked to a conceptual ontology. These approaches are founded in the tradition of theories focussing on the connection between lexis and grammar, especially in John Sinclair’s view of normal patterns of usage as the true bearers of meaning of a language.
