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<tt>A current trend in lexicography (Atkins & Rundell, The Oxford
Guide to Practical Lexicography) is the association of "constructions"
to word senses. IMHO, once a reasonably comprehensive picture of
syntactic constructions is developed (via dependency structures), we
are in a much better position to focus on semantic properties (e.g.,
frame elements in a FrameNet sense). Perhaps we can even determine the
meaning of life.<br>
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Ken<br>
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Linas Vepstas wrote:
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<pre wrap="">2010/1/4 Eric Atwell <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:csc6ea@leeds.ac.uk"><csc6ea@leeds.ac.uk></a>:
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<pre wrap="">What do you see these being used for? What are the useful applications of
dependency-parsed treebanks?
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My apologies in advance for excessive posting, but this seem important:
-- In August 2008, there was a long "Bootcamp" discussion on this mailing
list, on the meaning and nature of corpus linguistics, which was provoked
by Bill Louw when he more or less proclaimed that collocation is everything
to corpus linguistics.
I tried (but failed) to get a point across: "gee wouldn't it be neat if one
could do collocation, concordance, *and* have tags indicating whether
a word had been identified as a subject, object, prepositional object,
etc." Exactly what sort of discoveries might be made more easily,
as a result of this, I don't know. What sort of traps and pitfalls might
await from using such markup -- especially when the markup is faulty --
fertile ground for debate. But, in general, performing collocation-like
analysis of tagged, structured, text seems to provide extra possibilities
that aren't easily available from bare-naked text.
--linas
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