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<div>If you're looking for small vocabularies, there are several
associated with ESL dictionaries, such as Longman's and Macmillans.
Both have approximately 2000 words, and Wordsmyth also has a 2000 word
vocabulary used in its Beginner's Dictionary.
(http://www.wordsmyth.net) We're also using a 1500 word
vocabulary in our 1st reader's dictionary for K-2 school
children.</div>
<div>Bob</div>
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<div>At 12:05 PM -0800 1/9/11, Rich Cooper wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New" size="-1">Hi
John and David,</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New" size="-1">This
is quote from John's web site link below:</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1">Margaret Masterman's system at Cambridge University (1961)
was the first to be called a semantic network. She developed a list of
100 primitive concept types, such as Folk, Stuff, Thing, Do, and Be.
In terms of those primitives, her group defined a conceptual
dictionary of 15,000 entries. She organized the concept types into a
lattice, which permits inheritance from multiple supertypes. The basic
principles and even many of the primitive concepts have survived in
more recent systems of preference semantics (Wilks & Fass
1992).</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New" size="-1">John,
is there somewhere I can find the 100 concept types and the 15,000
entries? If they have been time tested as a core of concepts,
they should have value in refinement. </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New" size="-1">David
has been interested in small vocabularies for companies, and may also
be interested in the Masterman concept
types. </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1">Wierzbicka's primitive concepts number even less than 100.
I wonder if there is much overlap between the two
vocabularies?</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1">-Rich</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1">Sincerely,</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New" size="-1">Rich
Cooper</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1">EnglishLogicKernel.com</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New" size="-1">Rich
AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New" size="-1">9 4 9
\ 5 2 5 - 5 7 1 2</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: corpora-bounces@uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no] On Behalf
Of sowa@bestweb.net<br>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 8:39 AM<br>
To: corpora@uib.no<br>
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] describing languages as
[link]-[sem]-[morphsyn] tripplets...</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New" size="-1">>
Do you know of these types of language analysis (based
on</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1">"triplet"</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New" size="-1">>
formants) as I have explained, or anything</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1">similar to it?</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New" size="-1">When
triplets are joined together on their</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New" size="-1">common
labels, they form</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New" size="-1">a
directed labeled graph. Such graphs have</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New" size="-1">been
used to represent</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1">semantics for centuries. For a brief
summary</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New" size="-1">of the
many varieties,</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New" size="-1">see my
article on Semantic Networks in the</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1">Encyclopedia of AI:</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New" size="-1">
</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1">http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/semnet.htm</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"
size="-1"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New" size="-1">John
Sowa</font></blockquote>
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size="-1"> </font></blockquote>
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size="-1"> </font></blockquote>
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size="-1">Corpora mailing list</font></blockquote>
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size="-1">Corpora@uib.no</font></blockquote>
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size="-1">http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora</font></blockquote>
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