Resumen de What Do Users of General Electronic Monolingual Dictionaries Search for?: The Most Popular Entries in the Polish Academy of Sciences Great Dictionary of Polish
This article reports on an analysis of the most popular entries in the online general monolingual dictionary, based on the Polish Academy of Sciences Great Dictionary of Polish (GDP). The GDP was created from scratch over 12 years. The given survey aims to present an overview of its users’ needs after the completion of the first stage of work (which was the 15,000 most frequently used lexemes) and to draw conclusions which may become useful for other lexicographers facing similar challenges. The analyzed data consist of 500 most popular entries in a four-year time period. The majority (80%) constitutes multi-word expressions:
phraseological units (50%), proverbs (29%) and terms (1%). All of the subgroups are varied in style, meaning and form. The remaining 20% of the most popular entries are made up by single lexemes, mostly (15%) by the ones with a low subjective probability factor. Additionally, possible reasons for such results are addressed, considering school needs as well as the content of other online dictionaries.
