<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Maxwell is correct. But the quote that Laura is searching for implies that lexicographers' discretion may be excessive or irresponsible. We may need to ask her about that if we are to unpack the problem without moving into the checks and balances offered by modern lexicography. She seems to want to make a point about 'anything goes' attitudes. Bill<BR><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 9/7/10, maxwell <I><maxwell@umiacs.umd.edu></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: maxwell <maxwell@umiacs.umd.edu><BR>Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Quotation (lexicography)<BR>To: "Bill Louw" <louwfirth@yahoo.com><BR>Cc: corpora@uib.no, "Laura Lofberg" <Laura.Lofberg@uta.fi><BR>Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 8:14 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 07:48:11 -0700 (PDT), Bill Louw <<A href="http://us.mc653.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=louwfirth@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:louwfirth@yahoo.com">louwfirth@yahoo.com</A>><BR>wrote:<BR>> ...modern lexicographers would leave the number<BR>> of senses to the software to determine, largely through collocation.<BR><BR>Doesn't the software need to be told how many clusters to make (or what<BR>degree of dissimilarity to allow within clusters)?<BR><BR> Mike Maxwell<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table><br>