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Evaluating online bilingual dictionaries: The case of popular free English-Polish dictionaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2017

Robert Lew Open the ORCID record for Robert Lew [Opens in a new window]  and
Agnieszka Szarowska
Robert Lew
Affiliation:
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland (email: [email protected])
Agnieszka Szarowska
Affiliation:
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland (email: [email protected])
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Abstract

Language learners today exhibit a strong preference for free online resources. One problem with such resources is that their quality can vary dramatically. Building on related work on monolingual resources for English, we propose an evaluation framework for online bilingual dictionaries, designed to assess lexicographic quality in four major areas: coverage of lexical items, their treatment in the entries, access to lexical information, and presentation of lexicographic data. The proposed framework is applied to a set of six popular bilingual English-Polish dictionaries freely available online, established through an online survey of Polish learners of English.

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dictionary evaluationonline dictionarybilingual dictionaryEnglishPolish
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ReCALL , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , May 2017 , pp. 138 - 159
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Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 2017 

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