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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Mark,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Or, you could load a large Portuguese
corpus into the Word Sketch Engine, which then automatically produces a distributional
thesaurus: see <a href="http://sketchengine.co.uk/">http://sketchengine.co.uk</a>
We have processed corpora, and thesauruses, of this kind for English,
Chinese, Czech and Irish to date. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>But, you may say, are distributional
thesaurus as good as traditional ones? Needless to say, it all depends
what you want to do with them. We have some evidence that, for PP-attachment,
for Spanish, a distributional thesaurus outperforms Spanish WordNet. </span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> owner-corpora@lists.uib.no
[mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf
Of </span></b>Andrew Harley<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 03 May 2005 09:21<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Mark Davies<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> corpora@uib.no;
owner-corpora@lists.uib.no<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Corpora-List]
Portuguese thesaurus</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:sans-serif'>We have a Portuguese version of our Word Selector title
available for licensing in XML form. See
<http://www.cambridge.org/elt/elt_projectpage.asp?id=2500260> and
<http://dictionary.cambridge.org/researchers.htm>. There would be an annual
licence fee, the exact amount depending on whether one researcher or an
institution, and in this case on some third parties also. The title is only a
"mini-thesaurus" with about 10,000 words grouped into semantic
categories, so may well not have comprehensive enough coverage for your needs.
Contact me directly if interested.</span></font> <br>
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<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>Andrew
Harley<br>
Business Systems & Electronic Product Development Manager<br>
English Language Teaching<br>
Cambridge University Press<br>
<br>
<http://www.cambridge.org/elt/cdrom><br>
<http://dictionary.cambridge.org><br>
- the web's favourite learner dictionaries<br>
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<tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>owner-corpora@lists.uib.no
wrote on 02/05/2005 23:36:01:</span></font></tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> I'm looking for a machine-readable thesaurus
of Portuguese. I've</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> already tried two links to Portuguese WordNet</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> (http://www.clul.ul.pt/WordNet/index.jsp,</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">>
http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/WordNet/index.jsp) but neither is</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> operational. I've also tried the links
at</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> http://www.linguateca.pt/enciclopedias.html,
but no luck.</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> Thanks in advance.</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> Mark Davies</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> =================================================</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> Mark Davies</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> Assoc. Prof., Linguistics</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> Brigham Young University</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> (phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> ** Corpus design and use // Linguistic
databases **</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> ** Historical linguistics // Language
variation **</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> ** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">>
================================================= </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> </font></tt></span></font></p>
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