[Corpora-List] describing languages as [link]-[sem]-[morphsyn] tripplets...

[Robert Parks]

If you're looking for small vocabularies, there are several 
associated with ESL dictionaries, such as Longman's and Macmillans. 
Both have approximately 2000 words, and Wordsmyth also has a 2000 
word vocabulary used in its Beginner's Dictionary. 
(http://www.wordsmyth.net)  We're also using a 1500 word vocabulary 
in our 1st reader's dictionary for K-2 school children.
Bob

At 12:05 PM -0800 1/9/11, Rich Cooper wrote:
>Hi John and David,
>
>This is quote from John's web site link below:
>
>Margaret Masterman's system at Cambridge University (1961) was the 
>first to be called a semantic network. She developed a list of 100 
>primitive concept types, such as Folk, Stuff, Thing, Do, and Be. In 
>terms of those primitives, her group defined a conceptual dictionary 
>of 15,000 entries. She organized the concept types into a lattice, 
>which permits inheritance from multiple supertypes. The basic 
>principles and even many of the primitive concepts have survived in 
>more recent systems of preference semantics (Wilks & Fass 1992).
>
>John, is there somewhere I can find the 100 concept types and the 
>15,000 entries?  If they have been time tested as a core of 
>concepts, they should have value in refinement.  
>
>David has been interested in small vocabularies for companies, and 
>may also be interested in the Masterman concept types. 
>
>Wierzbicka's primitive concepts number even less than 100.  I wonder 
>if there is much overlap between the two vocabularies?
>
>-Rich
>
>Sincerely,
>Rich Cooper
>EnglishLogicKernel.com
>Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] describing languages as 
>[link]-[sem]-[morphsyn] tripplets...
>
>
>
>  > Do you know of these types of language analysis (based on
>"triplet"
>  > formants) as I have explained, or anything
>similar to it?
>
>When triplets are joined together on their
>common labels, they form
>a directed labeled graph.  Such graphs have
>been used to represent
>semantics for centuries.  For a brief summary
>of the many varieties,
>see my article on Semantic Networks in the
>Encyclopedia of AI:
>
>     
>http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/semnet.htm
>
>John Sowa
>
>
>
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