Information Types and Use Cases

These project notes are part of the lexicographic manual for the DW-DGS (Digitales Wörterbuch DGS. Das korpusbasierte Wörterbuch DGS – Deutsch). In these project notes, we describe our general decisions concerning dictionary type and content. We describe the different information types given in the entries (elements of the microstructure) and the ways a user can find desired information in the DW-DGS (access structures). The latter includes a closer look at the potential user groups of the DW-DGS. Different use cases of the dictionary and which information types and access structures are especially profitable to which user group are discussed.