[Corpora-List] Dictionaries/Lexical Databases

[Martin Wynne]

There is a computer-usable version of the Oxford Advanced Learners' 
Dictionary in the
Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) collection, freely available at:

http://www.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/collection.htm?uri=lll-2469-1

This was created and deposited by Jennifer Pedlar of Birkbeck Colloege, 
London, and is an updated and improved version of the dictionary made 
available by Roger Mitton many years ago. It contains 72,060 Ascii 
ordered English words, each with the following information: spelling, 
capitalisation, pronunciation, POS tags, word frequency and syllable 
count. Usefully, the wordlist contains inflected forms for all words.

Martin

-- 
Martin Wynne
Head of the Oxford Text Archive and
AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics

Oxford University Computing Services
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Shane Axtell wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>>     <mailto: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 <mailto:shane.axtell at gmail.com>
>>>                    axtell at cse.buffalo.edu
>>>         <mailto:axtell at cse.buffalo.edu> 
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Shane L. Axtell
>>     Computational Linguistics
>>     University at Buffalo
>>     phone: 645.6173 x518
>>     email: shane.axtell at gmail.com <mailto:shane.axtell at gmail.com>
>>               axtell at cse.buffalo.edu <mailto:axtell at cse.buffalo.edu> 
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Shane L. Axtell
> Computational Linguistics
> University at Buffalo
> phone: 645.6173 x518
> email: shane.axtell at gmail.com <mailto:shane.axtell at gmail.com>
>           axtell at cse.buffalo.edu <mailto:axtell at cse.buffalo.edu>