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[Magali Jeanmaire]

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ELRA is happy to announce that the following language resources have been
catalogued:
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Short descriptions of the resources listed below are given in this message.
We invite you
to visit the on-line catalogue on our web site, at http://www.elda.fr or
http://www.elra.info,
to get more detailed descriptions.
Please visit the following web site to get further information:
www.oup.co.uk/digital_reference

1/ Written resources

Monolingual
- L0045 New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE), 2nd Edition
- L0046 NODE + DIMAP
- L0047 New Oxford Thesaurus of English (NOTE)
- L0048 Oxford Paperback Thesaurus, 2nd edition

Bilingual
- M0027 Oxford French Minidictionary
- M0028 Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary
- M0029 Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary
- M0030 Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary
- M0031 Oxford Business French Dictionary
- M0032 Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary

2/ Spoken resource

- S0134 Concise Oxford Dictionary  Audio Files

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L0045 New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE), 2nd Edition

The NODE contains 170,000 entries covering all varieties of English
world-wide. It has been
designed for language engineering and to be used in NLP applications, and
is available in
XML or in SGML. The NODE data set includes morphological information linked
to the
lemma, phrases and idioms, subject classification, with over 200 key
domains, semantic
relationships

L0046 NODE + DIMAP

The first edition of the DIMAP version of NODE is a machine-tractable
version of the machine
-readable dictionary files in the DIMAP dictionary maintenance programs,
adding syntactic and
semantic information in the conversion. Apart from mechanisms which will
allow research into
representational formalisms and explorations of the use of these
representations in extending the
lexical database and in processing text for information extraction, text
summarisation, discourse
analysis and other LE applications, DIMAP also includes semantic links
between entries, thus
making NODE+DIMAP a semantic network of the English language.

L0047 New Oxford Thesaurus of English (NOTE)

This thesaurus contains  628,000 alternative words, including 573,000
synonyms, the rest being
antonyms, related terms, combining forms, and hyponyms, and is available in
SGML. Nearly
38,000 senses are also presented with a corpus-based example.

L0048 Oxford Paperback Thesaurus, 2nd edition

The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus, available in SGML, contains 15,000
headwords, over
300,000 synonyms, and 29,000 different senses presented with corpus-based
examples.

M0027 Oxford French Minidictionary

Over 100,000 words, phrases and translations are included in this bilingual
minidictionary,
which is available in SGML. Complementary information, such as usage notes,
is also
provided.

M0028 Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary

This bilingual dictionary contains 150,000 words and phrases, and 240,000
translations,
and is available in XML and SGML.

M0029 Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary

This is a mid-sized dictionary to cover essential terms and vocabulary,
available in XML
and SGML. It contains 80,000 words and phrases, and 115,000 translations.

M0030 Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary

The coverage of this concise Oxford Spanish dictionary includes 24
varieties of Spanish
as it is written and spoken throughout the Spanish-speaking world. This
bilingual dictionary
contains 170,000 words and phrases and 240,000 translations. It is
available in SGML and
XML.

M0031 Oxford Business French Dictionary

This dictionary covers the general language of Business across a range of
core areas.
It contains over 50,000 words and phrases, and is available in SGML

M0032 Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary

This dictionary covers the general language of Business across a range of
core areas.
It contains over 50,000 words and phrases, and is available in SGML

S0134 Concise Oxford Dictionary  Audio Files

The ‘acoustic dictionary’ contains 60,000 soundfiles recorded from the
Concise Oxford
Dictionary, with the British-English pronunciation. The format in use is
22kHz 16-bit WAV.

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If you are interested in buying some resource mentioned above, please
contact Valérie
Mapelli <mapelli at elda.fr>.


















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