Announcement of DIMAP-3 for beta-testing

Ken Litkowski (ken@clres.com)
Mon, 26 May 1997 13:43:18 -0700

CL Research (http://www.clres.com) is seeking beta-testers for its
Windows-based DIMAP-3 dictionary and content analysis software. DIMAP-3
is primarily designed for creating and maintaining dictionaries (that is,
lexical knowledge bases) for use in natural language processing
applications and contains specialized data fields for this purpose.
DIMAP-3 integrates a machine-readable dictionary (the Merriam-Webster
Concise Electronic Dictionary with 80,000 entry points) and WordNet (a
semantic network of 120,000 words and phrases), from which DIMAP entries
can be created and extended. DIMAP-3 includes utilities for uploading
your own dictionaries and converting the DIMAP dictionaries into your own
specified format. DIMAP-3 also contains an integrated content analysis
package ("Minnesota Contextual Content Analysis"), which performs a
quantitative analysis of textual material (from phrases to books), based
on a dictionary of 11,000 words classed into 116 categories (see papers
at the Web site for more details on this technique). DIMAP-3 can also be
used for any language using the ANSI character set.

Academic and commercial license agreements are available at
http://www.clres.com. Those signing a license agreement will have access
to the latest versions of DIMAP-3 as it evolves. CL Research is
especially interested in making arrangements with researchers involved in
lexicon design and content analysis. (The academic license agreement
allows students to use DIMAP-3 on their own personal computers.) Since
CL Research maintains the "Lexical Resources" page for Association for
Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on the Lexicon
(http://www.clres.com/siglex.html), we are particularly interested in
developing dictionaries (lexicons) that can be made freely and publicly
available (and especially those which follow procedures for category
development, as described in papers available at the Web site). CL
Research will also accept beta-test and evaluation license agreements
with those interested in using DIMAP-3 for commercial purposes.

For those not interested in signing a beta-test license agreement,
DIMAP-3 can be purchased at a special pre-release, refundable price of
$200, with assurance of continued updates with the same latest version
available to beta-testers.

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Ken Litkowski                         TEL.: 301-926-5904
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