This paper deals with the extraction, recording and visualisation of information related to usage of words or their meaning(s) in different communication situations. First, methods of recording and visualising word usage information in non-corpus-based dictionaries are discussed. Then, new trends and approaches to recording word usage are presented, based on analyses of large corpora, automated lexicographic procedures, building of dictionary databases and subsequent transfer of dictionary information to the the internet.We then present the process of usage data extraction from the Gigafida corpus for the purposes of the Slovene Lexical Database, focussing on automatic methods used, and ways of recording and structuring usage information.
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