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Ramesh Krishnamurthy: Change and continuity at COBUILD (1986-1996)

lexicographers to revise. In 1996, not only is the analysis conducted online, but the results are simultaneously entered into dictionary files on the computer. The dictionary files are carefully and rigorously coded, so that all the information can be checked automatically by a validation program. It is also relatively easy to tell typesetters how to deal with the data. Here are some extracts from the file containing the entry for 'robust': [HWDjrobust [FRQ]2 [PRN]/r&o&!ub*%ust, r*o*!ub&%ust/ [MNM] 1 [GRM]ADJ-GRADED [SYN] sturdy [ANT] [DEF]Someone or something that is [CIT]robust[/CIT] is very strong or healthy. [EXB] [X10]More women than men go to the doctor. Perhaps men are more robust or worry less?... The code [HWD] indicates the headword, [FRQ] the frequency band, [PRN] the pronunciations, [MNM] the meaning number, [GRM] the grammar, [SYN] the synonyms (if any), [ANT] the antonyms (if any), [DEF] the definition (with the headword highlighted by [CIT] and [/CIT]), [EXB] the beginning of a set of examples, [X

10] an example selected from subcorpus number 10. This coding system can also be used to do analyses of the dictionary text, for example to find all the definitions that contain a particular word, all the words with a particular grammar, etc. 74