[Corpora-List] Macquarie dictionary and thesaurus for research community

[Ken Litkowski]

We are pleased to announce the availability of The Macquarie Dictionary
(Big Mac) and The Macquarie Thesaurus for the academic (free) and
commercial research communities through CL Research.  The dictionary
contains comprehensive coverage of standard English, while also
providing the most complete coverage of Australian, Aboriginal, and
Southeast Asia English.  The dictionary is also unique in providing
direct links between individual definitions and the Roget-style
thesaurus.  CL Research has also created a machine-tractable version of
the dictionary in its dictionary creation and maintenance software
(DIMAP) and then parsed the definitions to add semantic links between
entries (particularly hypernyms, but also including such items as
"typical subject" for verbs). Details, including the license agreement,
are available at http://www.clres.com/macq-clr.html.

The licensing fees for a two-year period are:

		Academic	Commercial
		--------	----------
Big Mac		Free		$5,000
Thesaurus
Free
	$5,000
Thesaurus
Free
	$7,500
Big Mac+DIMAP	Free		$7,000

There is a $200 annual servicing fee for academic license agreements
(which also includes the latest and updated DIMAP during the licensing
period).  Commercial exploitation agreements will be developed separately.

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CL Research                       EMAIL: ken at clres.com
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