<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Schvaneveldt, Macdonald, Plate and others applied Pathfinder network analysis t the lDOCE dictionary in New Mexico back in the 1980s<div>and turned it into a WSD device (and commercialised it I think). described in many places including:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="2" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td class="medium-text" colspan="3" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 1em; "><strong>The role of lexicons in natural language processing</strong></td></tr><tr valign="middle"></tr><tr valign="top"><td class="small-text" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 0.83em; "><strong>Full text</strong></td><td class="smaller-text" colspan="2" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 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color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 0.83em; ">Pages: 63 - 72 </div><div class="small-text" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 0.83em; ">Year of Publication: 1996</div><div class="small-text" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 0.83em; ">ISSN:0001-0782</div></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td class="small-text" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 0.83em; "><strong>Authors</strong></td><td colspan="2" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 100%; "><div class="authors" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 80%; font-weight: normal; "><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td class="small-text" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 0.83em; "><a href="http://portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100574101&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&trk=0&CFID=10069161&CFTOKEN=19254230" target="_self" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 102, 153); ">Louise Guthrie</a></td><td class="small-text" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 0.83em; "><small> Lockheed Martin Text Exploitation Group</small></td></tr><tr><td class="small-text" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 0.83em; "><a href="http://portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100505953&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&trk=0&CFID=10069161&CFTOKEN=19254230" target="_self" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 102, 153); ">James Pustejovsky</a></td><td class="small-text" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 0.83em; "><small> Brandeis Univ., Waltham</small></td></tr><tr><td class="small-text" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 0.83em; "><a href="http://portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81339536449&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&trk=0&CFID=10069161&CFTOKEN=19254230" target="_self" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 102, 153); ">Yorick Wilks</a></td><td class="small-text" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 0.83em; "><small> Univ. Sheffield, Sheffield, UK</small></td></tr><tr><td class="small-text" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 0.83em; "><a href="http://portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100279580&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&trk=0&CFID=10069161&CFTOKEN=19254230" target="_self" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 102, 153); ">Brian M. Slator</a></td><td class="small-text" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 0.83em; "><small> Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL</small></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td class="small-text" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 0.83em; "><strong>Publisher</strong></td><td colspan="2" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 100%; "><div class="publishers" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 80%; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.acm.org/publications" target="publisher" title="Publisher" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 102, 153); ">ACM</a> <small>New York, NY, USA</small></div></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td class="small-text" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 0.83em; "><strong>Bibliometrics</strong></td><td colspan="2" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 100%; "><div class="publishers" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 80%; font-weight: normal; ">Downloads (6 Weeks): 8, Downloads (12 Months): 106, Citation Count: 3</div><div class="publishers" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 80%; font-weight: normal; "><br></div></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">Yorick Wilks</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><div><div>On 11 Nov 2008, at 16:13, Bob Parks wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Greetings:<br>I want to perform a network analysis on a dictionary, to see if the <br>relation among words is a "small worlds" network. Can anyone <br>recommend software? Anyone interested in helping?<br>Thanks,<br>Bob<br><br>-- <br>* The best dictionary and integrated thesaurus on the web: <br><a href="http://www.wordsmyth.net">http://www.wordsmyth.net</a><br>* Robert Parks - Wordsmyth - (607) 272-2190<br>* "To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life." (LW)<br>* "Philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point, however, <br>is to change it." (KM)<br>* Community grows as we communicate, honing our words till their <br>meanings tap the rich voice of our full human potential.<br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Corpora mailing list<br>Corpora@uib.no<br>http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora<br><br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>