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

[Adam Kilgarriff]

All,

Ken says:
> 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).

Good news is, Dante (http://webdante.com) has done something very like this
in a v large exercise on corpus-driven lexicography for English.  It
contains 20,844 compounds, all identified automatically and confirmed and
classified by lexicographers.  Of these, 2,989 have more than one meaning.

Distribution arrangement is being finalised: it will very soon (by end Feb)
be available free for academic research (and for low prices for non-academic
research) .  At webdante.com you can already explore all words in the M-R
stretch of the alphabet.

Thank you to Justin for Pen Island and Powergen Italia (juvenile that I am)!

Adam

On 28 January 2011 20:02, Ken Litkowski <ken at clres.com> wrote:

>  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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