Re: [Corpora-List] Summary: English dictionary

From: Patrick Cassidy (cassidy@micra.com)
Date: Fri Jul 19 2002 - 20:27:52 MET DST

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    One other dictionary not on this list is the one
    at the GNU site derived from the 1913 Webster's Unabridged.
    It is contained in ASCII files, one for each letter of the
    alphabet, and can be found at:

      ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/gnu/gcide/gcide-0.46

      In the same directory the file "tagset.web" explains
    the field-tags used, and "webfont.asc" explains the
    special-character symbols.
       This version has been only partly supplemented with some
    definitions from the WordNet which were not in the original
    1913 text. Only a few pronunciations have been entered,
    and only a few greek words have been transcribed. Otherwise,
    most of the text of the dictionary part of the original is
    in these files. It's antique, so it needs to be used
    carefully, but it can be freely used under the GNU GPL.

        Pat Cassidy 

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zhang yuqi wrote:

    > Dear list members,
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>      Some days ago I posted a query about English dictionary. Thank you 
> very much for the answers. There is the summary (total  5 )
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> Zhang yuqi
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> The summary is :
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> 1      You might try yourdictionary.com which includes lots of         
> links to dictionaries of many languages.
>                                                     Josephine Lo
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> 2     WordNet (http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/)
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>                                 Rada Mihalcea and MAltesh Badiger
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> 3     You could try CUV2 which is a 'computer-usable' version of the 
> Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary and available for free download 
> from the  Oxford Text Archive
> http://www.ota.ahds.ac.uk/ It contains 70,000+ entries (in text format) 
> including inflected forms etc. and provides a fairly comprehensive 
> coverage. There's also a Prolog-readable version on my web site at
> http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/pg/purver/software.html
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>                                                  Jenny and Matthew Purver 
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> 4    Cambridge can provide the Cambridge International Dictionary of 
> English or
> the English Pronouncing Dictionary, but these only cover the most frequent
> 50,000-80,000 words, not all English words. See
> http://uk.cambridge.org/elt/reference/data.htm for some more information.
>                                                     Andrew Harley
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> 5   Try the following URL:  http://www.m-w.com/
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>       Susana Sotillo 
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