Re: [Corpora-List] Dictionaries/Lexical Databases

From: Shane Axtell (shane.axtell@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 27 2006 - 22:32:15 MET

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    Just a clarification: I'm looking for online lexical databases of English.
    I'm currently using WordNet. I need others to conduct a comparison with the
    system I'm already using. I forgot to include this info before.

    Shane

    On 11/27/06, Darja Fišer <darja.fiser1@guest.arnes.si> wrote:
    >
    > oh. i'm really interested in what you find out, esp. if you can show that
    > some other less complicated and easier to create resource yields the same or
    > even better results. because i'm developing a wordnet for slovene and do not
    > want to waste too much energy and time on it if it becomes clear there are
    > easier ways to achieve the same results in nlp applications.
    > all the best with finding some really good resources,
    > darja
    >
    > Shane Axtell wrote:
    >
    > Thanks Darja,
    >
    > I've actually already got WordNet and using it. Since I'm working on a
    > survey of NLP tools I'm looking for other dictionaries to compare with
    > WordNet.
    >
    > Shane
    >
    > On 11/27/06, Darja Fišer <darja.fiser1@guest.arnes.si> wrote:
    > >
    > > wordnet is freely available, huge, contains what you're asking for and
    > > has been very popular in similar applications:
    > > http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
    > >
    > > hope it helps,
    > > --
    > > Darja Fiser
    > > Dept. of Translation Studies
    > > University of Ljubljana
    > > Slovenia
    > >
    > > Shane Axtell wrote:
    > >
    > > I'm looking for lexical databases (a.k.a. dictionaries) that are freely
    > > available and contain at least the part of speech information for each
    > > entry. This database will be connected to an NLP system that will take in
    > > unstructure corpora as input and output the data in a structured manner. Any
    > > leads along these lines would be greatly appreciated
    > >
    > > --
    > > Shane L. Axtell
    > > Computational Linguistics
    > > University at Buffalo
    > > phone: 645.6173 x518
    > > email: shane.axtell@gmail.com
    > > axtell@cse.buffalo.edu
    > >
    > >
    >
    >
    > --
    > Shane L. Axtell
    > Computational Linguistics
    > University at Buffalo
    > phone: 645.6173 x518
    > email: shane.axtell@gmail.com
    > axtell@cse.buffalo.edu
    >
    > 

    -- 
Shane L. Axtell
Computational Linguistics
University at Buffalo
phone: 645.6173 x518
email: shane.axtell@gmail.com
          axtell@cse.buffalo.edu

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