[Corpora-List] content based categories

[Martha Hofman]

Dear list members,

To my question concerning content based word categories, I received the following suggestions.
My question was: For my thesis concerning an electronic dictionary for second language learners, I am looking for content based categories of nouns, verbs, adjectives and nouns. Who knows where I can find such categories?

Thanks for your reactions,

Martha Hofman



Suggestions:

<http://dictionary.cambridge.org/researchers.htm>
All senses are coded into semantic categories as part of a "SmartThesaurus", and naturally all senses are also categorised grammatically.

For reviewing an electronic dictionary containing such data: for £15 buy the CD-ROM, see <http://dictionary.cambridge.org/cald/cdrom>.

Wordsmyth Children's Dictionary, at http://www.wordsmyth.net.  Some entries have word relations data, called "Word Explorer" - for example, the entry for "emotion".

CELEX. has few types of nouns and verbs, but gives frequency estimates for each. 

Verbs and nouns divided into "synsets" in the WordNet files: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/

Princeton WordNet (English)
GermaNet (German)
BalkaNet (several Middle and East European languages)
EuroWordNet (multi-lingual)
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