[Corpora-List] Dictionary network analysis

[Jim Fidelholtz]

Hi, Bob,

You might also want to check out the book _Electric words_, by Yorick
Wilks, Brian Slator & Louise Guthrie published, if memory serves, by MIT
Press in about 1996. I think the dictionary of reference for them was
COBUILD (maybe Longmans?).  In any case, the dictionary consciously used
*only* about 2000 well-selected words in their definitions, and the authors
were trying to refine and build on that basis to maybe strip a few more
words from the definitions. In any case, I liked the book a lot and learned
a lot from it, and heartily recommend it to anyone with any interest in
dictionaries, semantics, lexicography, lexicology or any combination of
those, which I assume includes you.

Hope this helps.

Jim

James L. Fidelholtz
Posgrado en Ciencias del Lenguaje
Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, MÉXICO


On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Robert Parks <rqparks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings:
> I'm looking for pointers to research on dictionaries as semantic networks.
> In particular, I'm interested in applying the pagerank algorithm to the
> dictionary. I want to find the central words (words used in definitions of
> important words), and central concepts (words that have important words as
> synonyms or similars).  Would anyone be able to point me toward relevant
> research? I'm also interested in collaborating with someone familiar with
> network analysis.
> Thanks,
> Bob Parks
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