[Corpora-List] semantic tagset and/or annotated dictionaries

[Rayson, Paul]

Further to Eric's message below: Wmatrix is the web-based front end to USAS
(UCREL semantic analysis system) and CLAWS (part-of-speech tagger). Further
information on these tools, with downloadable papers and the full tagsets, can
be found at:

http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/usas/
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/claws/

Regards,
Paul.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Eric Atwell [SMTP:eric at comp.leeds.ac.uk]
> Sent:	Friday, March 07, 2003 11:20 PM
> To:	Sergei Olonichev
> Cc:	corpora at hd.uib.no
> Subject:	Re: [Corpora-List] semantic tagset and/or annotated
> dictionaries
>
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Sergei Olonichev wrote:
> > Does anybody know any existing, practical semantic tagset(s) and/or
> > annotated dictionaries for English nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs.
>
> A "semantic tagset" derived from word-definitions in LDOCE
> (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English) is described in
>
> George Demetriou and Eric Atwell. 2001. A domain-independent semantic tagger
> for the study of meaning associations in English text. In Harry Bunt, Ielka
> van der Sluis and Elias Thijsse (editors), Proceedings of the Fourth
> International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-4) pp.67-80.
> Tilburg, Netherlands.  http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric/iwcs.ps
>
> and
> Xiao Yuan Duan and Eric Atwell. 2002. Semantic Association between Web Pages
> -
> a Lexical Knowledge Based Method. In: Proceedings of the 5th Annual CLUK
> Colloquium: Computational Linguistics in the United Kingdom, (CLUK 2002,
> University of Leeds, UK), pp.66 -76, 2002.
> http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/duan/html/paper_cluk5.htm
>
> A different semantic tagger, much more PRACTICAL as it comes integrated
> into a web-based easy-to-use interface allowing you to upload and
> tag your own corpus texts, is described in
>
> Rayson, P. (2003). Matrix: A statistical method and software tool for
> linguistic analysis through corpus comparison. Ph.D. thesis, Lancaster
> University.
> http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/paul/public.html#phdabstract
>
> Contact Paul Rayson: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/paul/
>
> Or better still, come to Corpus Linguistics 2003 (28-31 March) and meet Paul
> in person at Lancaster! - http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2003/
>
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