WordNet

[Victoria Neufeldt]

I have to confess that I know absolutely nothing about it.  Is it meant for
people writing specialized dictionaries or glossaries from scratch?

Lynne:  when is the book you mention coming out?

Victoria
Merriam-Webster, Inc. P.O. Box 281
Springfield, MA 01102
Tel: 413-734-3134  ext 124
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Bethany's original message:

> > I am just beginning to learn about WordNet. Have any lexicographers here
> > made use of it?
> >
> > Bethany

Lynne's reply (sent 25 May 00):

> I've written a lot of criticism on it, and have used it some.  I like to
> use it through Lexical FreeNet, because it offers more things to do with
> it, and you can print out nice flowcharts of how two words are connected.
>
> My criticism of it is not lexicographical but lexicological.  It was
> originally claimed to be an experiment in 'psycholexicography' -- modeled
> on how the mental lexicon is structured, and I think there are big
> problems with that claim.  To do the shameless plug thing, some of my
> criticism of it is in a chapter called "Knowledge _of_ Words versus
> Knowledge _about_ Words: The Conceptual Basis of Lexical Relations" in the
> forthcoming _The Lexicon/Encyclopedia Interface_ ed. by Bert Peeters.
> (The rest is in chapter 3 of my book in progress.)
>
> Lexical FreeNet is at:
> http://www.raisch.com/lexfn/
>
> Lynne
>
>
> Dr M Lynne Murphy
> Lecturer in Linguistics
> School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
> University of Sussex
> Brighton BN1 9QH
> UK
>
> phone +44-(0)1273-678844
> fax   +44-(0)1273-671320
>