Back to Main Conference 2006
LREC 2006main
New Approach to Frequency Dictionaries - Czech Example
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006)
Abstract
On the example of the recent edition of the Frequency Dictionary of Czech wedescribe and explain some new general principles that should be followed forgetting better results for practical uses of frequency dictionaries. It ismainly adopting average reduced frequency instead of absolute frequency forordering items. The formula for calculation of the average reduced frequencyis presented in the contribution together with a brief explanation, including examples clarifying the difference between the measures. Then, the Frequency Dictionary of Czech and its parts are described.