Comprehensive web-based corpora of dictionaries: Informational features and user options

© 2019, Institute of Advanced Scientific Research, Inc. All rights reserved. The paper is concerned with one of the advanced directions of modern linguography1 – the development of complex electronic vocabulary resources; it discusses the network dictionary corpora being created in the Republic of Tatarstan, their information potential, operational capabilities and prospects of development. ThemaintargetsofresearchareKazanLinguographicalCorpusandElectronicCollectionofDictionaries. The areas of strength of these resources are considered: the possibility of forming an analyzed data array [one source, a group of sources (which can be formed with account of different parameters), all sources], the selection of lexical units following on from various formal and informative features, grammatical, lexical and semantic and functional stylistic characteristics, usability, etc. A broad spectrum of heuristic data can be obtained as a result of a comparative analysis of data from different language directories. Electronic dictionary corpora contribute to the further development of the theory and practice of linguography, create a reliable information base for the development of various types of dictionaries. The information potential of electronic vocabulary is strengthened not only by expanding the composition of sources and the range of recorded characteristics, but also by forming virtual complexes on their basis, within the framework of which various links are established with other Internet resources, among which text corpora hold a particular place