[Corpora-List] Dictionaries/Lexical Databases

[Shane Axtell]

Just a clarification: I'm looking for online lexical databases of English.
I'm currently using WordNet. I need others to conduct a comparison with the
system I'm already using. I forgot to include this info before.

Shane

On 11/27/06, Darja Fišer <darja.fiser1 at guest.arnes.si> wrote:
>
>  oh. i'm really interested in what you find out, esp. if you can show that
> some other less complicated and easier to create resource yields the same or
> even better results. because i'm developing a wordnet for slovene and do not
> want to waste too much energy and time on it if it becomes clear there are
> easier ways to achieve the same results in nlp applications.
> all the best with finding some really good resources,
> darja
>
> Shane Axtell wrote:
>
> Thanks Darja,
>
> I've actually already got WordNet and using it. Since I'm working on a
> survey of NLP tools I'm looking for other dictionaries to compare with
> WordNet.
>
> Shane
>
> On 11/27/06, Darja Fišer <darja.fiser1 at guest.arnes.si> wrote:
> >
> > wordnet is freely available, huge, contains what you're asking for and
> > has been very popular in similar applications:
> > http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
> >
> > hope it helps,
> > --
> > Darja Fiser
> > Dept. of Translation Studies
> > University of Ljubljana
> > Slovenia
> >
> > Shane Axtell wrote:
> >
> > I'm looking for lexical databases (a.k.a. dictionaries) that are freely
> > available and contain at least the part of speech information for each
> > entry. This database will be connected to an NLP system that will take in
> > unstructure corpora as input and output the data in a structured manner. Any
> > leads along these lines would be greatly appreciated
> >
> > --
> > Shane L. Axtell
> > Computational Linguistics
> > University at Buffalo
> > phone: 645.6173 x518
> > email: shane.axtell at gmail.com
> >            axtell at cse.buffalo.edu
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Shane L. Axtell
> Computational Linguistics
> University at Buffalo
> phone: 645.6173 x518
> email: shane.axtell at gmail.com
>           axtell at cse.buffalo.edu
>
>


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Shane L. Axtell
Computational Linguistics
University at Buffalo
phone: 645.6173 x518
email: shane.axtell at gmail.com
          axtell at cse.buffalo.edu
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