[Corpora-List] content based categories

From: Martha Hofman (mahofman@hetnet.nl)
Date: Mon Dec 22 2003 - 17:15:37 MET

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    Dear list members,

    To my question concerning content based word categories, I received the following suggestions.
    My question was: For my thesis concerning an electronic dictionary for second language learners, I am looking for content based categories of nouns, verbs, adjectives and nouns. Who knows where I can find such categories?

    Thanks for your reactions,

    Martha Hofman

    Suggestions:

    <http://dictionary.cambridge.org/researchers.htm>
    All senses are coded into semantic categories as part of a "SmartThesaurus", and naturally all senses are also categorised grammatically.

    For reviewing an electronic dictionary containing such data: for £15 buy the CD-ROM, see <http://dictionary.cambridge.org/cald/cdrom>.

    Wordsmyth Children's Dictionary, at http://www.wordsmyth.net. Some entries have word relations data, called "Word Explorer" - for example, the entry for "emotion".

    CELEX. has few types of nouns and verbs, but gives frequency estimates for each.

    Verbs and nouns divided into "synsets" in the WordNet files: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/

    Princeton WordNet (English)
    GermaNet (German)
    BalkaNet (several Middle and East European languages)
    EuroWordNet (multi-lingual)

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