Sense Discrimination in Five English Learner’s Dictionaries

Halas, Ana

doi:10.2478/rjes-2013-0013

Abstract

This paper presents the comparison of sense discrimination strategies including the structure and organization of a polysemous word entry in five English monolingual learner’s dictionaries with the aim of gaining an insight into the aspects of sense division where the given dictionaries agree and disagree. The final outcome of the analysis is the selection of features contributing to the establishment of the user friendliest sense discrimination system in a pedagogical dictionary

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Sense Discrimination in Five English Learner’s Dictionaries

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