bllklly@olsen.UUCP (William Kelly) (11/08/90)
I'm looking for pointers to English grammars and lexicons that are freely distributable, and to English corpora. More specifically: Grammars: any reasonably complete English grammar in the literature or in machine readable form. I have lots of grammar books with informal discussion of English grammar, but I want something that can actually parse a reasonable large subset of English. I already have Winograd's 1983 `Language as a Cognitive Process', which includes a grammar in ATN form. Lexicons: I need something with at least part-of-speech information. I know of the Longman, Oxford, etc. on-line dictionaries, but those are not public domain. Spelling dictionaries aren't much help (and I already have one). Corpora: I would like a varied body of English writing, preferrably tagged with part of speech information. I have seen references to the Brown and LOB (Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen) corpora. Does anyone know how to obtain these or others? As a final point, if anyone is interested in discussing grammar checking programs or reviewing a proposal to write one (or eventually code for one), I would be appreciate the chance for some feedback. Bill Kelly Olsen and Associates, Seefeldstrasse 233, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland ...!olsen!bllklly or bllklly@olsen.uu.ch or bllklly@olsen.uucp