Corpora: Noun phrases categories

[Andrew Harley]

At 11:32 20/05/2002 +0900, Francis Bond wrote:

> >From a computational point of view, I have been looking at
>countability from the point of view of Japanese-to-English MT, and
>suggest splitting countability into 5 types (with a couple of
>sub-types): Fully countable; Strongly Countable; Weakly Countable;
>Uncountable and Plural Only.
>
>As far as I know there isn't any labeled data generally available, but
>I would be happy to be proved wrong.


These are interesting categories. Our English dictionaries classify nouns
into countable, uncountable, singular and plural; and naturally only
include single words and common compounds and idioms, not longer or rarer
noun phrases. This data is available as part of our CIDE+ data resource;
see http://uk.cambridge.org/elt/reference/data.htm or contact me for some
more information.



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