Integration of linguistic search tools for didactic purposes

The paper presents a new search tool that integrates linguistic search in various network resources in German. Conventional using of online resources for linguistic search (network dictionaries, linguistic corpora and other databases) has its advantages and disadvantages: relevance of the information, authentic examples of the use of lexical units, but at the same time the information collected this way is usually quite heterogeneous and requires time-consuming laborious manual processing: sorting by the type of information and text formatting. The desire to neutralize the disadvantages mentioned above has led to the development of Vo-kabelliste, a lexical analyzer program for a text-based generation of a basic learner dictionary (for the German language). The purpose of the article is to present the main characteristics of the developed program. The material of the study is based on the following German language network databases: the Duden Online Dictionary, the Digital Dictionary of the German Language, Leipzig Corpora Collection, Canoonet online language services, the multilingual online-dictionary PONS. The methodological basis of the research was modelling (theoretical and application level). As a result, the functional prototype of the Vokabelliste program was developed. Target groups of the program users are professors and schoolteachers of German, as well as students of German. To compile the basic learner dictionary using this program, the user manually performs only the choice of tokens from the text to be read, to be included in the basic learner dictionary, and specifies the necessary types of linguistic information. Next, the program automatically makes queries into databases for each of the lexical units, combines the marked types of information in a single document and provides a standard display of search results. In the final version of the basic learner dictionary the information is ordered by type: spelling and phonetic features; information on grammar; information on semantics; usage examples; paradigmatic relations; collocations; translation into Russian. The Vokabelliste program developed for the generation of a text-based basic learner dictionary improves efficiency (findings confirmed statistically), because it allows to automatically integrate linguistic information of various databases. Thus, the program can be one of the elements of an automated workplace of a linguist through the automation of routine processes.

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