Romanian associative dictionary

Abstract

The paper reports about an experiment of creation and development of an associative dictionary for the Romanian language. It outlines the first phase of the experiment when word associations were collected using questionnaire surveys. The second phase includes online interface creation and expanding the dictionary via internet. Several technical issues of the second phase are discussed. Some preliminary statistics are presented and a brief analysis of the obtained database is made. The created dictionary can be used in lexicography and studying Romanian language. At this stage of work we however are more interested in the richest and the most representative database of word association; the detailed analysis is postponed to forthcoming research.