Från ord till handling. En studie i ordboksanvändning på nätet.

• The article presents the results of a log file analysis of the searches in Lexin Svenska ord, a free Swedish monolingual Internet dictionary. It focuses on the non-successful searches, called not-founds. The results show, firstly, that a considerable amount of the not-founds are correct spelled Swedish words, but they are not included in the lemma selection of the dictionary. Users also often search for two (or more) word expressions. Secondly, the dictionary’s programmed response in the case of not-founds gives far too many suggestions for it to be user-friendly; sometimes the user is given as many as forty suggestions on words that he or she could have been searching for. Thirdly, users tend to repeat their searches in order to obtain a successful search, for example they try another spelling. It is shown that log files can be a helpful tool in lexicographers work improving electronic as well as paperback dictionaries.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Studier av enskilda språk (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Languages (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Lexikografi

ordboksanvändning

loggfiler.

Publikations- och innehållstyp

vet (ämneskategori)

kon (ämneskategori)