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Vocabulary portal of the University of Leipzig

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The Vocabulary portal (Wortschatz-Portal) is a website of the University of Leipzig, which currently (2 July 2020) provides, among other things, "478 corpus-based monolingual dictionaries in 252 languages" free of charge online. The following information is provided on German vocabulary, among other things:

  • Frequency of use / occurrence of the respective word;
  • Type of word to which the respective keyword belongs;
  • Subject areas in which the respective word is used;
  • Synonyms;
  • Subject groups into which the respective word is sorted in Franz Dornseiff's Der deutsche Wortschatz nach Sachgruppen;
  • Hyperlinked examples of the use of the word in question;
  • Lists and a graphic representation of which words frequently occur together with the respective keyword.

The vocabulary portal was developed by the Institute for Computer Science in the Department of Language Processing at the University of Leipzig. It emerged from a DFG project that began in 1998 and was completed in 2007. It comprises 6 million keywords and 15 million sentences.

External links[edit]

de:Wortschatz-Portal der Universität Leipzig


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