RE: [Corpora-List] content based categories

From: Evgeniy Gabrilovich (gabr@cs.technion.ac.il)
Date: Tue Dec 23 2003 - 13:27:18 MET

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    Dear Martha Hofman,

    There is an additional resource built around WordNet that labels word senses
    with broad categories such as Economy, Medicine or Geography.
    You can find more info about this project (called "WordNet domains") at
    http://tcc.itc.it/research/textec/topics/disambiguation/wordnetdomains.html
    According to your description, WordNet synsets might present too
    fine-grained
    distinctions for your task, while these broader categories might be more
    appropriate.

    Evgeniy. 

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  Subject: [Corpora-List] content based categories

      Dear list members,

      To my question concerning content based word categories, I received the
following suggestions.
  My question was: For my thesis concerning an electronic dictionary for
second language learners, I am looking for content based categories of
nouns, verbs, adjectives and nouns. Who knows where I can find such
categories?

      Thanks for your reactions,

      Martha Hofman

      Suggestions:

      <http://dictionary.cambridge.org/researchers.htm>
  All senses are coded into semantic categories as part of a
"SmartThesaurus", and naturally all senses are also categorised
grammatically.

      For reviewing an electronic dictionary containing such data: for £15 buy
the CD-ROM, see <http://dictionary.cambridge.org/cald/cdrom>.

      Wordsmyth Children's Dictionary, at http://www.wordsmyth.net.  Some
entries have word relations data, called "Word Explorer" - for example, the
entry for "emotion".

      CELEX. has few types of nouns and verbs, but gives frequency estimates for
each.

      Verbs and nouns divided into "synsets" in the WordNet files:
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/

      Princeton WordNet (English)
  GermaNet (German)
  BalkaNet (several Middle and East European languages)
  EuroWordNet (multi-lingual)

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