<font face="verdana,sans-serif">Okay, before the conversation is completely hijacked... :)<br><br>I'm looking for an authentic and comprehensive list which is more like an ontology, if you will. I would prefer a structured representation than just a laundry list. For example, Determiners --> Articles --> Definite Articles --> "the". I'm more of an applied NLP researcher. Sticking to some standard version might work for people like me, even if it is slightly controversial. <br>
<br>I would return the favor by releasing a Java source preloaded with this information. If nothing works, I will have to go through some books like Quirk et al. and compile one.<br><br clear="all"></font><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Sincerely,</span><br style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Alexander Yeh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asy@mitre.org">asy@mitre.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
One thing about citing or making use of Wikipedia contents: I find that I need to give a date for the "version" of the article that I am referring to. I have found some articles of interest to drastically change in its contents in less than a year.<br>
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-Alex<br>
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Yannick Versley wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
But I disagree with your assumption that Wikipedia is not<br>
"authentic" - Wikipedia has sophisticated mechanisms for fostering<br>
and monitoring supervised collaboration, producing a resource which<br>
is arguably more authoritative and unbiased than a single-authored<br>
source; e.g. see [...]<br>
<br>
I think what *was* meant was something closer to the original research.<br>
<br>
Wikipedia is meant as an encyclopedia - not a primary source (i.e.<br>
original research) or<br>
a secondary source (survey papers, textbooks). Encyclopedias (tertiary<br>
sources) gain<br>
credibility by looking (or formulating) a consensus between texts inside<br>
a domain and<br>
making them accessible to people outside a domain.<br>
<br>
WP often gets coverage for obscure topics that have no secondary sources<br>
and then people delete the article for non-notability or lack of sources<br>
(these<br>
are part of the "sophisticated mechanisms" - Wikipedia has long drifted away<br>
from the initial anarchy, but it also introduced scary-looking people<br>
with truncheons<br>
in the process).<br>
<br>
If you look at the WP page on "Closed class", the article is relatively<br>
short and<br>
incoherent (but the WP:Administrators don't seem to have noticed it),<br>
whereas<br>
the one for "function word" is a lot longer and has "citation needed"<br>
and "original<br>
research" stuck to its top. The "function word" article links to a page<br>
with a<br>
list of "function words" where they include<br>
<br>
Auxiliary Verbs<br>
Conjunctions<br>
Determiners<br>
Prepositions<br>
Pronouns<br>
Quantifiers<br>
<br>
<br>
And, of course, some people think that prepositions don't really fit the<br>
function<br>
word criteria and say that they're somewhere between function words (which<br>
usually have no meaning that is independent of context) and lexical<br>
words (which do).<br>
<a href="http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/hlittlefield/ResearchDocs/Chapter1.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/<u></u>hlittlefield/ResearchDocs/<u></u>Chapter1.pdf</a><br>
seems to give a sensible overview on who claims what in that discussion.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Yannick Versley<br>
<br>
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