Re: Corpora: Q: English/German/Polish thesauri

From: Andrew Harley (aharley@cambridge.org)
Date: Wed Oct 10 2001 - 18:26:09 MET DST

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    At 06:01 PM 08/10/2001 +0200, Adam Przepiorkowski wrote:
    >
    >Could anyone recommend any readily available mono- or
    >multilingual electronic thesauri (understood as hierarchies
    >of terms with relations such as broader term (BT) and
    >narrower term (NT)) containing terms for any of the
    >following topics:
    >- geography,
    >- law, finances,
    >- science and technology,
    >- industry,
    >- medicine, pharmacy?
    >
    >I am interested mainly in such thesauri for English, German
    >and Polish.
    >
    >If there are enough responses, I'll post a summary.
    >
    >Many thanks in advance.
    >
    >Best,
    >
    > Adam P.

    The Cambridge International Dictionary of English CD-ROM
    http://uk.cambridge.org/elt/cide and SGML data
    http://uk.cambridge.org/elt/reference/data.htm include thesaurus-style
    related words coding for all senses, and may be of interest to you.

    Andrew Harley
    Electronic Development Manager
    English Language Teaching & Dictionaries
    Cambridge University Press

    Direct line: (01223)325880

    Cambridge Dictionaries Online (15 million searches to date):
    http://dictionary.cambridge.org

    Cambridge Learner's Dictionary (published February 2001):
    http://uk.cambridge.org/elt/cld

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