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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=739302112-23122003>Dear
Martha Hofman,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=739302112-23122003>There
is an additional resource built around WordNet </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=739302112-23122003>that labels word senses
</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=739302112-23122003>with
broad categories such as Economy, Medicine or Geography.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=739302112-23122003>You
can find more info about this project (called "WordNet domains")
at</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=739302112-23122003><A
href="http://tcc.itc.it/research/textec/topics/disambiguation/wordnetdomains.html">http://tcc.itc.it/research/textec/topics/disambiguation/wordnetdomains.html</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=739302112-23122003>According to your description, WordNet synsets might
present too fine-grained</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=739302112-23122003>distinctions for your task, while these broader
categories might be more appropriate.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=739302112-23122003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=739302112-23122003>Evgeniy.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT size=2>--<BR>Evgeniy Gabrilovich<BR>Ph.D. student in Computer
Science<BR>Department of Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of
Technology<BR>Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel<BR>E-mail:
gabr@cs.technion.ac.il WWW: <A href="http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr"
target=_blank>http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr</A><BR>Phone: (office)
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> owner-corpora@lists.uib.no
[mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Martha
Hofman<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 22, 2003 18:16<BR><B>To:</B>
corpora@hd.uib.no<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Corpora-List] content based
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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>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<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></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>