Open AccessSynonymische Beziehungen im Wortschatz and Wörterbucheinträge
Author(s) -
Dieter Herberg
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
hermes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.759
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1903-1785
pISSN - 0904-1699
DOI - 10.7146/hjlcb.v2i3.21407
Subject(s) - vocabulary , german , computer science , natural language processing , linguistics , artificial intelligence , philosophy
By the example of synonymy the author shows requirements, possibilities and limits of representing macrostructural semantic relations of the vocabulary in a universal monolingual dictionary. The basis of the investigation are 10 common German-language dictionaries; the examples are all synonyms of the words Weltall and Weltraum . After showing the problem and the latest state of scientific research the author proposes to refer consequently to synonyms in the dictionary. Such a theoreticallly based method would enable the user of the dictionary to discover the synonymic relations which are concealed by the alphabetically arranged entries.