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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'>HECTOR was a research project between
Oxford University Press (for lexicography) and DEC (for computing) in the early
1990s. It explored the potential for improving dictionaries and
computational lexicons through close engagement with corpus data and use of
sophisticated computing and NLP software. Lexicographers manually
sense-tagged large sets of corpus examples for a few hundred words, using
hardware and software with what was, for the time, a ground-breaking corpus
search facility (and later turned into Altavista, the Google of its day).
The project was the inspiration for my work in the WASPS project (<a
href="http://wasps.itri.bton.ac.uk/">http://wasps.itri.bton.ac.uk</a> ) and,
more recently, the Sketch Engine (<a href="http://sketchengine.co.uk/">http://sketchengine.co.uk</a>
) Project leaders from OUP’s side were </span></font><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Sue Atkins</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> (<a
href="http://www.lexmasterclass.com/">http://www.lexmasterclass.com</a> ) and </span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Patrick Hanks</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> <a
href="http://www.patrickhanks.com/">http://www.patrickhanks.com/</a> </span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>It provided the English SENSEVAL-1
dictionary and corpus, used to evaluate Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) systems
(<a href="http://www.senseval.org/">http://www.senseval.org</a> )</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'>SEMCOR is a manually sense-tagged corpus
produced by the Princeton WordNet team, based on the WordNet sense inventory, freely
available and which has been very widely used for WSD and related tasks.
KILO was also a WordNet team project – see <a
href="http://wordnet.princeton.edu/">http://wordnet.princeton.edu</a> for more
info (to state the obvious)</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'>Adam</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;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>InuH<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 11 August 2005 23:22<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> CORPORA@UIB.NO<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Corpora-List] KILO</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hi list members,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I wonder if anyone could give me detailed
information about KILO, HECTOR and SEMCOR?</span></font></p>
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