[Corpora-List] in need of a specialized lexicon (summary)

[Martin Wynne]

I'd just like to add something to the summary on this topic. The
computer-usable Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of current English in
the Oxford Text Archive is available legally from, not surprisingly, the
Oxford Text Archive at http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/texts/0710.html. But better
than this, there is also an enhanced version of this resource updated in
2003 at http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/texts/2469.html.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Tetreault [mailto:tetreaul at cs.rochester.edu]
> Sent: 27 September 2004 17:12
> To: corpora at lists.uib.no; Lenhart Schubert
> Subject: [Corpora-List] in need of a specialized lexicon (summary)
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> Hi, I'd like to thank everyone who emailed me about my request 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.
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> Here's a summary of the information provided by listmembers:
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> 1. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of current English
> (text number
> 0710 in the Oxford Text Archive, or at
> http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/ota/710/ ) was prepared by
> Roger Mitton,
> and includes noun features including
> countable/uncountable/proper and an
> interesting but very non-standard verb frame structure.  Note
> that the
> data was produced in 1986 and updated in 1992.
> (thanks to Jonathan Young <jonathan_young at comcast.net>)
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> 2. The Specialist Lexicon of the Unified Medical Language
> System (lexical
> needs for the medical community).  This
> lexicon contains over 220,000 terms and was developed to provide the
> lexical information needed for the SPECIALIST Natural Language
> Processing System. It is intended to be a general English lexicon that
> includes many biomedical terms. Coverage includes commonly occurring
> English words and biomedical vocabulary. The data elements in the
> lexicon describe syntactic characteristics of each entry, including
> inflection codes, case, gender, syntactic category, complements for
> verbs and nouns, modification types for adverbs, and more. This is
> lexicon was developed as a free, publicly available resource,
> with only
> moderate restrictions (e.g., you can't claim it as your own)."
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> 3. http://www.clres.com/lexdata.html - links to lexicon data
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> (previous two thanks to Ken Litkowski  ken at clres.com)
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> 4. Longman Dictonaries:
> * Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Lisp version
> (LDOCE Lisp -
> 1978):
> http://www.longman.com/dictionaries/research/reslisp.html
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> * Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, NLP version (LDOCE NLP -
> 2000):
> http://www.longman.com/dictionaries/research/resnlapp.html#4
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> (thanks to "Crowdy, Steve" <Steve.Crowdy at pearson.com>)
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> 5. Unitex:  http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~unitex/  has features such
> animate, conrete, abstract, unit of measure, collective, etc.  For
> Engliush and French
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> (thanks to Sebastian Nagel <wastl at cis.uni-muenchen.de>)
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> 6. Comprehensive lexicon for Italian (7000 entries) and a
> smaller one for
> English (3300 entries) - see Rodolfo Delmonte (1995), "Lexical
> Representations: Syntax-Semantics interface and World Knowledge," in
> Rivista dell'AI*IA (Associazione Italiana di Intelligenza
> Artificiale),
> Roma, pp.11-16.  for a summary of his group's work.
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> Thanks to all who emailed me, it was a great help.
>
> Joel
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