[Corpora-List] Lexicon with semantic features needed

[Adam Kilgarriff]

Dear Jonathon,

The Word Sketch Engine (http://www.sketchengine.co.uk - self-register for a
trial account) has this kind of information available.  It also has an API
for accessing the information according to your specifications.  

It'll take a bit of thinking about to work out exactly what you want - you
could work simply from the MI of "drunk person" and "drunk spoon", but a
more general solution, less subject to data sparseness, would also use the
built-in thesaurus.  There are also possibilities for using a semantic
tagger such as the one developed at Lancaster

http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel/usas/ 

to either enrich corpus data to support more specific queries, or in other
ways,

Regards,

	Adam Kilgarriff

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Subject: [Corpora-List] Lexicon with semantic features needed

Dear all

Does anyone know of a freely-downloadable lexicon of words tagged according 
to their semantic features? For my purposes (an attempt at auto-generating 
cryptic crossword clues) neither the lexicon itself nor the sets of 
features need be huge; what I need is a way of evaluating whether two or 
more selected words "sit comfortably" together (e.g. DRUNK PERSON) or not 
(e.g. *DRUNK SPOON).

Any other potential solutions will be equally welcome!

Many thanks

Jonathan