27.213, FYI: StringNet 4.0, Open Search for Lexicogrammar

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Subject: 27.213, FYI: StringNet 4.0, Open Search for Lexicogrammar

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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:06:00
From: David Wible [wible at stringnet.org]
Subject: StringNet 4.0, Open Search for Lexicogrammar

 
We’re pleased to announce the release of StringNet 4.0, a new version of our
English lexico-grammatical knowledgebase. Full search access is freely
available on line at nav.stringnet.org. 

Just as all previous versions, StringNet, 4.0 takes an English word (or words)
as a query and responds with a ranked list of multiword and lexico-grammatical
patterns in which that word is conventionally used (or in which those words
conventionally co-occur) and concordances for each pattern. As a ‘net’,
StringNet also links each pattern to its related patterns and their
concordances, e.g., to its more abstract counterparts (its parents) and more
specific counterparts (its children). So it links ‘consider yourself lucky’ to
its parents ‘consider [pron reflx] lucky’, ‘[verb] yourself lucky’ and
‘consider yourself [adj]’, and shows words attested in those slots. So
clicking on any word or slot in any pattern displays its paradigm, a list of
the substitutable words there representing the attested variation for that
slot in that exact context. This can reveal the variation and its limits that
are latent and covert in otherwise flat (n-gram) strings of words. 

New function: Collocations

StringNet 4.0 has added a collocation search that takes a query word and
provides two word collocations containing it (for a query of resemblance, it
gives striking resemblance; passing resemblance, etc.). Additionally, each
collocation is linked to contextual patterns that contain that collocation:
‘bear a striking resemblance to’, ‘more than a passing resemblance to’ for
example.

Other new features:

4.0 gives more flexibility for users to decide (1) how patterns are ranked;
for example, there is now an option to rank results by pure frequency; and (2)
what sorts of patterns to display; for example, users can ask to be shown only
patterns with words and no POS slots or only patterns of one length (only
4-grams or only 3-grams, for example).

Feel free to use it for your research, teaching, or learning. More details at:
http://nav4.stringnet.org/about.php and a blog on StringNet at
http://blog.stringnet.org/

The original StringNet 3.0 remains on line as well and a link to it is on the
StringNet main page (nav.stringnet.org)
Best,
David Wible and Nai-Lung Tsao
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Lexicography

Subject Language(s): English (eng)





 



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