RE: Query: word lists

John Higgins (j.j.higgins@stir.ac.uk)
Tue, 20 Feb 1996 17:09:06 GMT

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I'm researching in corpora processing (specifically on
> word sense disambigution), and I would
> need a list of English empty words (i.e. words with
> weak meaning: 'the', 'any', etc)
>
> I've looking for it in the web, but I didn't manage to
> get it. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places.

I have added a list of these words (which I created in order to carry out
selective part-of-speech deletions within my ECLIPSE language game) to my
own Web page at

http://www.stir.ac.uk/epd/higgins.htm

Hope it helps.

John Higgins
CELT, University of Stirling
j.j.higgins@stuir.ac.uk