When the Journey Is as Important as the Goal: A Roadmap to Multilingual Dictionary Construction

Author(s)
Fabienne Lind, Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Tobias Heidenreich, Hajo Boomgaarden
Abstract

Communication scientists have made rapid advances in the computer-assisted analysis of large quantities of media data, but research has focused on monolingual corpora and most often on English-language text. This study works toward the application of computer-assisted analysis in the framework of multilingual media content. Taking the measurement of migration frames in the news coverage in 7 languages as a case study, it systematically compares different strategies (i.e., keyword preselection, translation, evaluation) for the construction of a multilingual dictionary. Classification results are contrasted to each other and to results of English monolingual dictionaries that are applied to the translated text corpus version. Even though we do not yet achieve perfect agreement between manual coding and dictionary classification decisions, with the strategies compared here, we outline methodological techniques that may bring researchers closer to this goal.

Organisation(s)
Department of Communication
Journal
International Journal of Communication (IJoC)
Volume
13
Pages
4000-4020
ISSN
1932-8036
Publication date
2019
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
508007 Communication science
Portal url
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/when-the-journey-is-as-important-as-the-goal-a-roadmap-to-multilingual-dictionary-construction(c58e70e3-bb45-4967-9a72-bc978a64a750).html