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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear list members,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To my question concerning content based word
categories, I received the following suggestions.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My question was: For my thesis concerning an
electronic dictionary for second language learners, I am looking for content
based categories of nouns, verbs, adjectives and nouns. Who knows where I can
find such categories?<BR></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for your reactions,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Martha Hofman</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Suggestions:</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><<A href="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/researchers.htm"
eudora="autourl">http://dictionary.cambridge.org/researchers.htm</A>><BR>All
senses are coded into semantic categories as part of a "SmartThesaurus", and
naturally all senses are also categorised grammatically.</DIV>
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<DIV>For reviewing an electronic dictionary containing such data: for
£15 buy the CD-ROM, see <<A
href="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/cald/cdrom"
eudora="autourl">http://dictionary.cambridge.org/cald/cdrom</A>>.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Wordsmyth Children's Dictionary, at http://www.wordsmyth.net. Some
entries have word relations data, called "Word Explorer" - for example, the
entry for "emotion".</DIV>
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<DIV>CELEX. has few types of nouns and verbs, but gives frequency
estimates for each. <BR></DIV>
<DIV>Verbs and nouns divided into "synsets" in the WordNet files: <A
href="http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/">http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/</A><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Princeton WordNet (English)<BR>GermaNet (German)<BR>BalkaNet (several
Middle and East European languages)<BR>EuroWordNet
(multi-lingual)<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>