Dabartinés raSomosios lietuviy kalbos dazninis Zodynas ir jo baze
The “Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary Written Lithuanian” and its data base

Summary/Abstract: There are few electronic databases for Lithuanian. The largest are the Frequency Dictionary of Modern Written Lithuanian, compiled by V. Zilinskiené and L. Grumadiené, and the Lithuanian Language Corpus of Kaunas University. The former is presented in detail here: the principles of its compilation and its possible uses are discussed, and the hitherto published work in statistical linguistics based on it is briefly characterised. The main problems in connection with the databases for modern Lithuanian are: (1) their insufficient differentiation (they reflect only the written, not the spoken language), (2) their not being optimally used, as the Lithuanian scholarly community lacks the Preparation needed for working with such tools, and (3) the fact that the efforts of scholars compiling them receive too little public recognition and are not valued as original scholarly achievements.

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