Corpus-driven lexicography: historical review and recent applications to higher education terminology

Abstract

[EN] The article highlights the advancements of corpus linguistics that have contributed to the development of data-driven learning, computer-assisted L2 learning, translation studies, ways of knowledge assessment, among others. It mostly focuses on the developments in the area of corpus-driven lexicography. The main aim is to reflect on the current use of corpora and lexicographic tools built from corpora as well as on future perspectives in the improvements of corpora and corpus tools. Recent applications of those tools to the refinement of bilingual educational terminology in Spanish and Russian are also discussed in the paper. The authors describe the methodology of compilation of the corpus-based glossary of Spanish-Russian higher education. The architecture for analyzing professional terminology consisting of four components is proposed in the paper. The quantitative method is used to prove the effectiveness of the corpus-driven approach.