This paper reports on the representation of nouns in the Diccionario de aprendizaje del español como lengua extranjera, an ongoing on-line dictionary prototype being developed at the Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada. The DAELE is designed for upperintermediate students of Spanish as a foreign language and is corpus-based. We discuss our decisions concerning the macrostructure and microstructure for noun entries, and the procedure we followed to obtain a representative sample of nouns in terms of grammatical structure and semantic field. In our project, given the expected characteristics of users, we have opted for full-sentence definitions, and we follow Lara (1998) in attempting to organize senses within entries according to semantic criteria. Issues discussed in this paper include the ordering of senses, the choice of examples, and the type of semantic label chosen to guide users.
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