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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=953425119-04052005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Sorry about that, but I get this email every 4-5 hours. Was
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Tadeusz Piotrowski<BR>www.tadeuszpiotrowski.neostrada.pl
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> owner-corpora@lists.uib.no
[mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Adam
Kilgarriff<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 03, 2005 11:47 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
'Andrew Harley'; 'Mark Davies'<BR><B>Cc:</B> corpora@uib.no;
owner-corpora@lists.uib.no<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Corpora-List] Portuguese
thesaurus<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Mark,</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Best,</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
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Adam</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">-----Original
Message-----<BR><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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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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><BR><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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><BR></SPAN></FONT><BR><BR><TT><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">owner-corpora@lists.uib.no wrote on
02/05/2005 23:36:01:</SPAN></FONT></TT><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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">>
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=================================================</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">>
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