Étude généalogique d’articles dictionnairiques affichés par Google
Genealogical Study of Google’s Lexicographical Entries

Summary/Abstract: Since about three years ago, if you use Google as a search engine to find the meaning of a French word, an unilingual dictionary often appears as the first entry, with no reference or URL. Comparative textual investigations show that Google dictionary entries are related to a set of Le Robert dictionaries which have their origins in Le Robert illustré, first published in 2009, and available since then in a variety of electronic formats: Dixel mobile (2014) and Le Robert mobile(2019) for iPhones, and the “Dictionary of definitions” of the spell checker Le Robert correcteur (2014, 2018, 2019). The comparison between Google entries and the same entries in Le Robert correcteur’s “Dictionary of definitions” allows us to progress in the genealogical study of Google’s entries. It shows which simplifications of the text of the entries and which changes of their structure can be observed between Google’s dictionary and its text source.

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