[Corpora-List] encoded morphological relationships among words

Florian Petran florian.petran at googlemail.com
Wed Jul 9 15:52:18 UTC 2008


Another alternative for English would be CATVAR:

http://clipdemos.umiacs.umd.edu/catvar/

Has the advantage that it's free.

2008/7/7 Emiliano Guevara <emiliano.guevara at unibo.it>:
> Dear Albrecht,
>
> for English, Dutch and German, the CELEX database might be what you
> look for.
>
> http://www.ru.nl/celex/index.html
>
> you will find it in most university libraries.
>
> E.
>
>
>
> On Jul 7, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Albretch Mueller wrote:
>
>>
>> I have been trying to find more morphological/lexicological
>> information than what you get from a dictionary and I would like for
>> this information to be encoded in such a way, that, say, in English,
>> you can see that "nation" and "native" or "busy" and "business" are
>> indeed related and how so.
>> ~
>> I am also interested in the general morphological pattern among
>> words; inflectional or derivational ones. Say "busy" and "easy" are
>> since there is also "easiness" . . .
>> ~
>> If you look up "business" on thefreedictionary.com you will see as
>> the last description of the word:
>> .. . .
>> 11.  Obsolete The condition of being busy.
>> ~
>> nation:
>> http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nation
>> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nation
>> http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=nation
>> ~
>> native:
>> http://www.thefreedictionary.com/native
>> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/native
>> http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=native
>> ~
>> busy:
>> http://www.thefreedictionary.com/busy
>> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/busy
>> http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=busy
>> ~
>> business:
>> http://www.thefreedictionary.com/business
>> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/business
>> http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=business
>> ~
>> From where can you get such info, preferably as a wordlist? or, how
>> would you go about producing one? (from where would you get the raw
>> data?)
>> ~
>> Thanks
>> lbrtchx
>>
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