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Toward a Framework for Reviewing Online English Dictionaries
- Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America
- Dictionary Society of North America
- Number 34, 2013
- pp. 201-210
- 10.1353/dic.2013.0017
- Article
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The criteria considered by reviewers of print dictionaries represent a consensus of opinion about what makes a “good” dictionary that has been developed over many decades. In contrast, because the presence of dictionaries online is a relatively new phenomenon, a set of agreed criteria for reviewers of online dictionaries has yet to be established. The authors propose a framework of eight broad criteria that reviewers might follow in their assessment of the relative merits of online dictionaries, along with a checklist of sub-criteria to aid in this assessment.