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<div>Prof. Wilks,</div>
<div>I remember seeing an early version of Plate's analysis in
"Computational Lexicography for NLP" (Boguraev &
Briscoe). I'm interested primarily in the notion that the semantic
"hubs" in a network analysis would turn out to be central
concepts in leveraging cognitive development. For example,
"cause" (influence, power, etc.) or "instrument"
(tool, implement, etc.) would surely be central hubs in our semantic
domains. The interesting question for me is how two strategies of
differentiation occur: (1) enriching a term with multiple senses; and
(2) differentiating among multiple terms in a field of similar terms.
It has been proposed that education can be enriched by in depth study
of a core set of terms (Gardner, The Disciplined Mind). And it has
also been proposed that its important to have a wide ranging
vocabulary for concept discrimination. Both are probably true. But
educational specialists have no systematic criteria for choosing the
keywords in education.</div>
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<div>Thanks for your response. Any advice for this novice is
appreciated.</div>
<div>Bob</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>At 5:06 PM +0000 11/11/08, Yorick Wilks wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Schvaneveldt, Macdonald, Plate and others
applied Pathfinder network analysis t the lDOCE dictionary in New
Mexico back in the 1980s<br>
and turned it into a WSD device (and commercialised it I think).
described in many places including:<br>
The role of lexicons in natural language processing<br>
Full text<x-tab> </x-tab>Pdf (625 KB)<br>
Source<x-tab> </x-tab>Communications of
the ACM archive<br>
Volume 39 , Issue 1 (January 1996) table of contents<br>
Pages: 63 - 72<br>
Year of Publication: 1996<br>
ISSN:0001-0782<br>
Authors<x-tab> </x-tab><br>
Louise Guthrie<x-tab> </x-tab> Lockheed Martin Text Exploitation
Group<br>
James Pustejovsky<x-tab> </x-tab>
Brandeis Univ., Waltham<br>
Yorick Wilks<x-tab> </x-tab> Univ. Sheffield,
Sheffield, UK<br>
Brian M. Slator<x-tab> </x-tab> Northwestern Univ., Evanston,
IL<br>
Publisher<x-tab> </x-tab><br>
ACM New York, NY, USA<br>
Bibliometrics<x-tab> </x-tab><br>
Downloads (6 Weeks): 8, Downloads (12 Months): 106,
Citation Count: 3<br>
<br>
Yorick Wilks<br>
<br>
<br>
On 11 Nov 2008, at 16:13, Bob Parks wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" 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>
http://www.wordsmyth.net<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>
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</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Schvaneveldt, Macdonald, Plate and others
applied Pathfinder network analysis t the lDOCE dictionary in New
Mexico back in the 1980s</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>and turned it into a WSD device (and
commercialised it I think). described in many places
including:</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>The role of lexicons in natural
language processingFull text</b><a
href=
"http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=234204&type=pdf&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=10069161&CFTOKEN=19254230"><span
></span>Pdf</a> (625 KB) <br>
<b>Source</b>Communications of the ACM <a
href=
"http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=J79&type=periodical&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=10069161&CFTOKEN=19254230"><span
></span>archive</a><br>
Volume 39 , Issue 1 (January 1996) <a
href=
"http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=234173&type=issue&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=10069161&CFTOKEN=19254230"><span
></span>table of contents</a><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Pages: 63 - 72 </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Year of
Publication: 1996</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>ISSN:0001-0782</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>Authors</b></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href=
"http://portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100574101&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&trk=0&CFID=10069161&CFTOKEN=19254230"><span
></span>Louise Guthrie</a><font size="-1"> Lockheed Martin Text
Exploitation Group</font><a
href=
"http://portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100505953&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&trk=0&CFID=10069161&CFTOKEN=19254230"><span
></span>James Pustejovsky</a><font size="-1"> Brandeis Univ.,
Waltham</font><a
href=
"http://portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81339536449&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&trk=0&CFID=10069161&CFTOKEN=19254230"><span
></span>Yorick Wilks</a><font size="-1"> Univ. Sheffield,
Sheffield, UK</font><a
href=
"http://portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100279580&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&trk=0&CFID=10069161&CFTOKEN=19254230"><span
></span>Brian M. Slator</a><font size="-1"> Northwestern Univ.,
Evanston, IL</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>Publisher</b></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href="http://www.acm.org/publications">ACM</a> <font
size="-1">New York, NY, USA</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>Bibliometrics</b></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Downloads (6 Weeks): 8,
Downloads (12 Months): 106, Citation Count: 3</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Yorick Wilks</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Arial"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>On 11 Nov 2008, at 16:13, Bob Parks
wrote:</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br>
<blockquote type="cite" 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</blockquote>
</blockquote>
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<div>* The best dictionary and integrated thesaurus on the
web: http://www.wordsmyth.net<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, is to change it." (KM)<br>
* Community grows as we communicate, honing our words till
their meanings tap the rich voice of our full human
potential. <br>
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