[Corpora-List] Moving Lexical Semantics from Alchemy to Science

[Ken Litkowski]

On 1/28/2011 1:04 PM, Ted Pedersen wrote:
> What a fun thread. :)

One part alchemy and one part science. Since I kinda kicked off this 
thread with my concern about us not looking for primitives, I'd like to 
add a few further cents and a lament.

PBS newshour did a piece on Google's n-grams a few weeks ago ("Word 
Nerding Just Got Easier") with the ever delightful Erin McKean. This 
thread has partially followed that notion with all the humorous noun 
compounds. I hope we don't focus on those so much, except as needed to 
do crossword puzzles.

Yorick expressed his long experience with an apparent lack of progress. 
Certainly, Robert has clear scientific goals in mind and we have gotten 
some nice "scientific" observations, particularly from John, Ramesh, 
Anne-Kathrin, and Ted. It would be nice if we could get some 
community-wide effort into this. We need a vehicle, perhaps transforming 
Wiktionary. It would be nice if we could apply John's rules to Ted's 
compounds and *put those findings into a dictionary* (lexicographers 
have only barely done so, while lexicologists need that information).

     Ken

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