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On Monolingual Dictionaries and Child Language Development

, 2020
Amfani (2008) ignites a very interesting child language development debate. He argues that “… colonial interference in the natural affairs of Africans has been the major factor responsible for the type of communication disorder he refers to as ‘lexical ...
Okolocha, Oby, Yuka, Lendzemo Constantine   +1 more
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The effectiveness of ChatGPT as a lexical tool for English, compared with a bilingual dictionary and a monolingual learner’s dictionary

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Traditionally, language learners have relied on dictionaries when trying to read or write in a foreign language. However, new LLM-based chatbots may offer an alternative to traditional dictionaries as lexical tools.
Robert Lew, Bartosz Ptasznik, Sascha Wolfer   +2 more
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Cross‐Lingual Knowledge Transfer Framework for Multilingual Customer Support AI: An Expert System Perspective

Expert Systems, Volume 43, Issue 10, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This study presents a comprehensive methodology for processing multilingual customer support data to prepare it for training AI‐based conversational systems. Using a dataset of 36,599 unique customer interactions from a Finnish energy company, we employed language‐specific BERT models to identify and analyse thematic patterns within customer ...
Joona Mäntyvaara, Paavo Nevalainen, Jukka Heikkonen   +2 more
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Subsidios lexicográficos para la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras: Qué diccionarios tienen a su disposición los aprendices brasileños de español? Lexicographical resources for foreign language teaching: What dictionaries are available to Brazilian learners of Spanish?

Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, 2011
Este trabajo tiene dos objetivos. En primer lugar, presentar un panorama de los diccionarios de lengua española mediante la elaboración de una taxonomía.
Virginia Sita Farias
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Monolingual Dictionary Use in an EFL Context

English Language Teaching, 2012
Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman, has been encouraging its students to use monolingual dictionaries rather than bilingual or bilingualized ones in classroom and during the exams. This policy with has been received with mixed feelings and attitudes.
openaire   +2 more sources

Treatment of Spelling Variants in Setswana Monolingual Dictionaries

Lexikos, 2015
This paper argues that the Setswana language is characterised by spelling variants which are a consequence of multiple factors. It considers spelling variants found amongst individual words as well as those found in multi-word expressions (MWEs).
Thapelo J. Otlogetswe
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The semantics of Chemical Markup Language (CML): dictionaries and conventions. [PDF]

, 2011
The semantic architecture of CML consists of conventions, dictionaries and units. The conventions conform to a top-level specification and each convention can constrain compliant documents through machine-processing (validation).
Townsend Joe A, Weerapong Phadungsukanan, Sam E Adams, Townsend JA, Thomas J, Joe A Townsend, Murray-Rust P, Thomas Jens, Phadungsukanan W, Peter Murray-Rust, Jens Thomas, Adams SE, Phadungsukanan Weerapong, Murray-Rust Peter, Adams Sam E   +14 more
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Sense Discrimination in Five English Learner’s Dictionaries

Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2013
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 ...
Halas Ana
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ELECTRONIC DICTIONARIES AND ESP STUDENTS [PDF]

This article presents the results of an experiment conducted on two distinct groups of students attending our ESP classes in the academic year 2009-2010.
Adriana Vintean, Ovidiu Matiu
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A Comparative Study of Macro- and Microstructures in al-Muʿjam al-Wasīṭ, Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, and Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language: Implications for Digital Lexicography

Eloquence
Monolingual dictionaries play a crucial role in applied linguistics because they provide definitions and contextual meanings without involving another language.
Mafatihatul Maqhfiroh, Umi Kulsum, M. Husni T, Mawardi Yahya, Merry Choironi   +4 more
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