Connecting the dots : tradition and disruption in lexicography

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dc.contributor.authorTarp, Svenen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-11T10:00:38Z
dc.date.available2019-12-11T10:00:38Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionCITATION: Tarp, S. 2019. Connecting the dots : tradition and disruption in lexicography. Lexikos, 29:224-249, doi:10.5788/29-1-1519.en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://lexikos.journals.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis article botanizes in the history of lexicography trying to connect the dots and get a deeper understanding of what is happening to the discipline in the framework of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The objective is to suggest possible ways out of the present deadlock. History shows that a sudden change of the technological base, like the one we are now experiencing, suggests a total revolution of the discipline in all its major dimensions. In order to be successful, such a revolution requires a mental break with past traditions and habits. As a matter of example, the article focusses on a series of bilingual writing assistants developed by the Danish company Ordbogen A/S and the new challenges posed to lexicography by these and similar tools. It argues that these challenges cannot be solved by means of traditional user research which is retrospective as it unfolds in the framework of an old paradigm. As an alternative, and without excluding other types of user research, the article recommends disruptive thinking by means of brainstorm, immersion, and contemplation and provides some examples on how to proceed. Finally, it problematizes the incipient competition between human and artificial lexicographers and gives a brief account of a possible future redistribution of tasks.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1519
dc.description.versionPublisher's versionen_ZA
dc.format.extent26 pages : illustrationsen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationTarp, S. 2019. Connecting the dots : tradition and disruption in lexicography. Lexikos, 29:224-249, doi:10.5788/29-1-1519en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2224-0039 (online)
dc.identifier.issn1684-4904 (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.5788/29-1-1519
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/107339
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherBureau of the WATen_ZA
dc.rights.holderBureau of the WATen_ZA
dc.subjectArtificial intelligenceen_ZA
dc.subjectFourth Industrial Revolutionen_ZA
dc.subjectTradition in lexicographyen_ZA
dc.subjectArtificial lexicographersen_ZA
dc.subjectNew challenges for lexicographyen_ZA
dc.titleConnecting the dots : tradition and disruption in lexicographyen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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