Publication detail

Intelligent Dictionary Interfaces: Usability Evaluation of Access-Supporting Enhancements

SINOPALNIKOVÁ, A. SMRŽ, P.

Original Title

Intelligent Dictionary Interfaces: Usability Evaluation of Access-Supporting Enhancements

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

The present paper describes psycholinguistic experiments aimed at exploring the way people behave while accessing electronic dictionaries. In our work we focused on the access by meaning that, in comparison with the access by form, is currently less studied and very seldom implemented in modern dictionary interfaces. Thus, the goal of our experiments was to explore dictionary users’ requirements and to study what services an intelligent dictionary interface should be able to supply to help solving access by meaning problems. We tested several access-supporting enhancements of electronic dictionaries based on various language resources (corpora, wordnets, word association norms and explanatory dictionaries). Experiments were carried out with native speakers of three European languages - English, Czech and Russian. Results for monolingual and bilingual cases are presented.

Keywords

dictionary interfaces, access by meaning

Authors

SINOPALNIKOVÁ, A.; SMRŽ, P.

RIV year

2006

Released

11. 7. 2006

Publisher

European Language Resources Association

Location

Paris

ISBN

2-9517408-2-4

Book

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

Pages from

1

Pages to

4

Pages count

4

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT22214,
  author="Anna {Sinopalnikova} and Pavel {Smrž}",
  title="Intelligent Dictionary Interfaces: Usability Evaluation of Access-Supporting Enhancements",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation",
  year="2006",
  pages="1--4",
  publisher="European Language Resources Association",
  address="Paris",
  isbn="2-9517408-2-4"
}