rolandi@gollum.Columbia.NCR.COM (rolandi) (01/05/88)
Several people have written to me personally in reference to an request I made earlier for an online dictionary. This is a collective response to those people. Two sources have been suggested. the Microsoft CD ROM version of the American Heritage Dictionary and the OED from Oxford University Press I called my local Microsoft dealer but he had no idea what I was talking about. I have not been able to get further information about the OED either. If anyone can locate these sources, I would appreciate what they find out. Thanks. walter rolandi rolandi@gollum.UUCP () NCR Advanced Systems, Columbia, SC u.s.carolina dept. of psychology and linguistics
dave@mimsy.UUCP (Dave Stoffel) (01/06/88)
*** reposted in response to recent request for online dictionaries ***
Subject: Re: machine-readable dictionaries
Here's a summary of replies to my query on sci.lang. I also received
some papers on MRDs; let me know if you would like copies.
I recently queried the net community about computerized
dictionaries which contained part-of-speech information. Here's
a digest of the responses.
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>From the Oxford Text Archives:
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Contemporary English
Collins English Dictionary.
>From ?
Webster's Pocket Dictionary (Amsler's thesis used this one)
Longmans Dictionary of Contemporary English.
>From Gage Publishers:
Gage Canadian Dictionary
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Automated Language Processing Systems
190 West 800 North
Provo, UT 84601
Tel. (801) 375-0090
They have a wide variety of machine readable dictionaries (in several
languages). They are not on USENET but you could get in touch with
them by telephone or mail. Talk to either Robert Goode or Logan Wright.
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You may wish to consult a report by Robert Amsler on computerized
dictionaries that appeared in the Annual review for Inf Sc and Tech
Vol 19, 1984, pp 161-209.
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A book you may be interested in:
Erik Akkerman
Pieter Masereeuw
Willem Meijs
1985
Designing a Computerized Lexicon for Linguistic Purposes
ASCOT Report No. 1
Rodopi
Amsterdam
A comparison of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and
the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary for the purposes of NLP
research.
Both dictionaries are apparently available on tape, and both have part of
speech info included. (The report favors Longman's dictionary.)
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Dave Stoffel (703) 790-5357
seismo!mimsy!dave
dave@Mimsy.umd.edurjw@pbhyd.UUCP (Rod Williams) (01/07/88)
My understanding is that the online Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is still a work-in-progress and is not yet commercially available.
mary@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mary Patricia Lowe) (01/07/88)
In article <29@gollum.Columbia.NCR.COM> rolandi@gollum.UUCP () writes: > > the Microsoft CD ROM version of the American Heritage Dictionary > the OED from Oxford University Press > >If anyone can locate these sources, I would appreciate what they find out. In the January 1988 issue of IEEE Spectrum, the section on Tools and Toys (p. 73) contains a short blurb on the Microsoft Bookshelf. The CD-ROM includes the following reference works: The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The American Heritage Dictionary, The U.S. ZIP Code Directory, The Chicago Manual of Style, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Roget's II: Electronic Thesaurus, Houghton Mifflin Spelling Verifier and Corrector, Houghton Mifflin Usage Alert, Business Information Sources. For more information, contact: Microsoft Corp., Box 97017, Redmond, WA. 98073, (206)-882-8088. -Mary Mary Patricia Lowe mary@csd4.milw.wisc.edu ...ihnp4!uwmcsd1!mary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
sjmz@otter.HP.COM (Stefek Zaba) (01/07/88)
/ otter:comp.ai / rjw@pbhyd.UUCP (Rod Williams) / 5:53 pm Jan 6, 1988 / >My understanding is that the online Oxford English Dictionary (OED) >is still a work-in-progress and is not yet commercially available. Oxford Advanced Learner's is available as indicated. The mammoth work of reference on the historical development of the English Language, the multi- volumed Oxford English Dictionary, is being reworked and will be made available in electronic form with extensive tagging (i.e. *not* just flat text). Overall manager of this project is Timothy Benbow at Oxford University Press, Oxford, England (no email link that I know of!); there's also active academic involvement at A Canadian University - Waterloo? - which has set up a unit to do great things on this project. Mail me if you want the correct details on that (I can dig them out at home).
craig@think.COM (Craig Stanfill) (01/08/88)
In article <1092@pbhyd.UUCP> rjw@pbhyd.UUCP (Rod Williams) writes: >My understanding is that the online Oxford English Dictionary (OED) >is still a work-in-progress and is not yet commercially available. There is a new edition of the OED, which is currently in preparation, and will eventually be available in electronic form. There is also the old (1932?) edition plus numerous supplements, which is available in electronic form through Oxford University Press.
mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) (01/14/88)
In respect of on-line dictionaries, no-one yet has mentioned the
CELEX project at the University of Nijmegen/Max-Planck Institute Nijmegen.
To quote from the CELEX newsletter 1 (Dec 86):
The lexical database is intended to contain the following information
at the end of the first stage, both for Dutch and for English:
- orthographic information: graphemes, hyphenations, spelling and
form variants, accents, etc.
- phonological information: phonemes, allophones, syllable structure,
primary and secondary stress, points of isolation
- morphological information: hierarchical decomposition into free and
bound morphemes, inflectional paradigms, morphemic relations, etc.
- syntactic information: grammatical word class, grammatical valence
(argumant structure, transitivity), inflectional attributes, etc.
- frequency information: per wordform, lemma, morpheme, etc. based on
recent and representative text corpora.
I believe this lexicon is intended to be accessible at some cost, but
whether it will be accessible to non-Dutch researchers I do not know.
Information can be obtained from celex@hnympi52.earn (I guess .bitnet
is a synonymn for .earn).
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