<div dir="ltr">Hi, Bob,<div><br></div><div>You might also want to check out the book _Electric words_, by Yorick Wilks, Brian Slator & Louise Guthrie published, if memory serves, by MIT Press in about 1996. I think the dictionary of reference for them was COBUILD (maybe Longmans?). In any case, the dictionary consciously used *only* about 2000 well-selected words in their definitions, and the authors were trying to refine and build on that basis to maybe strip a few more words from the definitions. In any case, I liked the book a lot and learned a lot from it, and heartily recommend it to anyone with any interest in dictionaries, semantics, lexicography, lexicology or any combination of those, which I assume includes you.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hope this helps.</div><div><br></div><div>Jim</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>James L. Fidelholtz<br>Posgrado en Ciencias del Lenguaje<br>Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades<br>
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, MÉXICO</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Robert Parks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rqparks@gmail.com" target="_blank">rqparks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Greetings:<br>
I'm looking for pointers to research on dictionaries as semantic networks. In particular, I'm interested in applying the pagerank algorithm to the dictionary. I want to find the central words (words used in definitions of important words), and central concepts (words that have important words as synonyms or similars). Would anyone be able to point me toward relevant research? I'm also interested in collaborating with someone familiar with network analysis.<br>
Thanks,<br>
Bob Parks<br>
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