[Lexicog] hierarchical semantic fields

[William J Poser]

I don't know about LexiquePro, but if you are in a position to do some
processing of your own, it is certainly possible to encode hierarchical
semantic field information in Shoebox-style files. I have done this
for some time in my Carrier lexicon files, which are in format similar to,
though not identical to, Shoebox. Semantic fields consist of components
separated by hyphens, e.g. "plants-domestic". These are easy to search on,
and if you want to generate a topical dictionary or topical index, you can
easily sort on them and use them to generate headings.

Bill
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Bill Poser, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wjposer/ billposer at alum.mit.edu


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