dave@mimsy.UUCP (Dave Stoffel) (03/19/87)
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
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