[Corpora-List] in need of a specialized lexicon

[Sebastian Nagel]

Joel Tetreault wrote:
> Hi, I am sending this email on behalf of a professor here (Lenhart
> Scubert.  He is looking for a comprehensive lexicon containing
> semantic (or quasi-semantic) noun features such as mass/count,
> abstract/concrete, object/measure/event/state/process/etc, part/whole, etc.,
> on top of verb frames with argument-type preferences.  Certainly corpora
> with with verb frames exist, but we didn't know if one with those specific
> noun features also existed.  If you have any information, please email me.
>
The lexica for (at least) English and French shipped with Unitex
(http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~unitex/) encode such features like

+Hum     - human being
+Anl     - animal
+Conc    - concretum
+Abst    - abstractum
+Unit    - unit of measure
+HumColl, +AnlColl, ... - collective
... and some more

e.g.:

gang,.N+HumColl:s
gangs,gang.N+HumColl:p
woman,.N+Hum:s
women,woman.N+Hum:p
serpents,serpent.N+Anl:p
sheep,.N+Anl:s:p
subject,.N+Abst:s
subjects,subject.N+Abst:p


Sebastian