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> Reply-To: lexical@crl.nmsu.edu
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> Consortium for Lexical Research Newsletter 11
> February 18, 1994
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>
>
> >From the Computing Research Laboratory
> New Mexico State University
>
> Edited by: Jim Cowie and Katherine Mitchell
>
> Contributions and inquiries to:
> 	lexical@nmsu.edu OR lexical@nmsu.bitnet
>
> FTP address for accessing materials:
> 	clr.nmsu.edu [128.123.1.12].
>
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>
> Introduction
>
> This newsletter discusses machine readable dictionaries made available
> through CLR. In addition some recently acquired parsers are described.
> The next newsletter will describe wordlists stored in our archives,
> and a new service to CLR members, called Resources, which will
> centralize information on ftp sites, organizations, projects,
> publications, etc. of interest to the natural language processing
> research community.
>
> For more information on the Consortium, please ftp to our site and get
> a copy of our catalog. It is available in plain ascii as `catalog' or
> in a postscript version `catalog.ps'. Any questions about the archives
> or on using the becoming a member of CLR can be obtained by emailing
> lexical@nmsu.edu.
>
> This newsletter is distributed in plain ASCII text and in postscript
> format. To obtain a copy please ftp to clr.nmsu.edu.  The directory is
> CLR/newsletter and the files to get are news11.txt and news11.ps.
>
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>
> Contents
>
> 1.	Using FTP and Changes in our FTP site
>
> 2.	Machine Readable Dictionaries
>
> 3.	Recent Acquisitions
>
> 4.	CLR Membership
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>
> Using Anonymous FTP
>
> Materials stored in the CLR are constantly being updated and new
> acquisitions are available. If you are interested in learning what
> these items are, you are welcome to ftp our catalog.
>
> Anonymous ftp allows non-members access to the catalogs and some
> unrestricted data files.  Here are the steps for using Anonymous FTP.
> It is recommended that you get the file README.clr.site for an
> introduction to using our archives.
>
>
> >ftp clr.nmsu.edu (or ftp 128.123.1.12)
>
> login: anonymous
>
> password: type in your email address; for ex: rose@ed.ac.uk
>
> ftp> cd CLR
>
> ftp> binary (it is very important to set the binary mode when you are
> downloading software programs. Failure to do this can cause poor data
> transfer and problems with the software when you use it)
>
> ftp> get README.clr.site (or get catalog) ftp> quit
>
> Members of CLR use a login name and a special password that they are
> assigned. Members can access certain directories that non-members are
> unable to use.
>
>
> Changes at our FTP site
>
> The archives have been reorganized and all CLR materials are now under
> the directory CLR. Within the CLR area there are reserved materials
> filed in the directories named members-only and MUC5, and freely
> available materials under the directories multiling, lexica, and
> tools. There are new README files, and the file README.clr.site will
> answer basic questions about the Consortium and accessing its
> materials through ftp.
>
>
>
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> MACHINE READABLE DICTIONARIES
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>
> Large dictionaries with full semantic information are not freely
> available. The first section below describes the MRD's which CLR
> distributes, along with their costs.  Sample electronic files are
> available for some of these dictionaries; please email us if you would
> like to see electronic samples. The Consortium has very good working
> relationships with these publishers, and will facilitate the paperwork
> and expediting the materials.
>
> There are a variety of freely available dictionaries which have
> pronunciation information, some syntactic information, or some
> features information, but none with full definitions of headwords. As
> a service to CLR members we are gathering these dictionaries and
> trying to build a complete centralized archive of what is available.
>
>
> ****Dictionaries with Semantic Information: not freely available****
>
>
> 1)  Collins English Dictionary
>
> Collins English Dictionary, 3rd Edition, published in 1991. A revised
> edition will be issued later this year; Revised 3rd Edition. The CED3
> contains 180,000 references, 190,000 numbered definitions, 14,000 new
> entries and updated entries from the previous edition, and 16,000
> biographical and geographical entries; it has 3.5 million words of
> text. A very extensive resource, in many ways an encyclopedia as well
> as a dictionary. The vocabulary of science, technology, and other
> specialist areas is well covered.Older versions of the CED are fairly
> obsolete. The CED3 is primarily a British English dictionary, though
> it contains many American English spellings and meanings.
>
> Format: The machine readable dictionary is supplied on tape. It is in
> ascii text format and contains the typesetters codes.
>
> Cost: 2,000 pounds sterling for academic research; more for corporate
> research.
>
> Instructions: Harper Collins Publishers has an application form that
> is required; upon its approval a contract is drawn up; upon completion
> of the contract and payment of the fees, the tape is provided.
>
> Sample: an electronic sample is available from CLR.
>
>
> 2)   Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary
>
> Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary is a Learners Dictionary,
> designed for instruction in the English language. COBUILD is developed
> from analysis of the Collins Bank of English, a corpus of more than
> 200 million words gathered from a wide range of spoken and written
> sources. The dictionary concentrates on contemporary, everday,
> non-specialist English and uses example sentences taken from real or
> spoken language. It has over 70,000 references, and over 90,000
> examples.
>
> The Format, Cost, Instructions, and Samples are the same as above.
>
>
> 3)   Collins Bilingual Dictionaries
>
> Harper Collins publishes a line of bilingual dictionaries for several
> languages which come in different sizes. The Gem series editions have
> about 40,000 references, and the Concise series editions have over
> 100,000. The Large editions typically have over 200,000 references and
> over 400,000 translations.
>
> German-English bilingual: Gem, Concise, Large
>
> Italian-English bilingual: Gem, Concise, Large
>
> Spanish-English bilingual: Gem, Concise, Large
>
> French-English bilingual: Gem,
>
> Greek-English bilingual: Gem
>
> Hindi-English bilingual: Gem
>
> Malay-English bilingual: Gem
>
> Portuguese-English bilingual: Gem
>
> Russian-English bilingual: Gem
>
> Format: The machine readable dictionaries are supplied on tape.
> They're in ascii text format and contain the typesetters codes.
>
> Cost: For academic research only; the Gem costs 1,000 pounds sterling,
> the Concise is 1,250 pounds, and the Large is 2,000 pounds. Corporate
> research pricing is higher.
>
> Instructions: are the same as those listed above for Collins English
> dictionaries.
>
> Samples: electronic samples are available for the Spanish-English and
> the German-English bilinguals in their Large editions. The samples are
> for the complete letter "N" in both languages.
>
>
> 4)   Longmans Dictionary of Contemporary English
>
> LDOCE is available electronically as the second edition published in
> 1987 or as the first edition from 1978. The first edition is available
> as a typesetting tape or as a LISP version, and has semantic
> information which was not included in the second edition. For example,
> Box Codes, which hierarchically specify abstract or concrete, concrete
> branching to animate or inanimate, animate branching to plant, human,
> animals and etc., etc. Also marked are Subject Field Codes which
> indicate domains, such as Economics, Entertainment, or Basketball.
> LDOCE is a Learners Dictionary; the first edition has approximately
> 45,000 entries, and the second edition about 56,000 (including
> phrasals).
>
> Format: 1978 and 1987 editions: typesetting tape.
>
> 1978 edition: lisp version on tape, or typesetting tape.
>
> Cost: 1,000 pounds sterling for academic research; more for corporate
> research.
>
> Instructions: Longmans Publishers has an application form
> that is required; upon its approval a contract is drawn up; upon
> completion of the contract and payment of the fees, the tape is
> provided.
>
>
> 5)   Roget's Thesaurus
>
> The original 1911 Roget's Thesaurus is freely available. A 1991
> American English Edition of the thesaurus is available published by
> Harper Collins. For academic research purposes it costs 750 pounds
> sterling.  Please write to inquire about the Collins version.  You can
> ftp to the directory below to pick up the freely available 1911
> version.
>
>
> Ftp Directory: lexica/roget_1911/
>
>
>
> ****Dictionaries in English: freely available ****
>
> The following is a list of public domain dictionaries, none of which
> contain definitions or full semantic information. All have some
> accompanying documentation that helps explain the codes used and the
> syntactic information available. Each of these has strict copyright
> privileges reserving them for academic research and excluding them
> from incorporation into any commercial applications.
>
>
> 1)   Collins English Dictionary Prolog FactBase
>
> Developed by Dr.  Ed Fox and Dr. Robert Vance at Virginia Tech. Using
> the original 1974 Collins English Dictionary a set of Prolog facts
> were derived and a set of relations files created, one file for each
> "relation to the headword" identified in the structure of the
> dictionary. Examples of these files are:HEADWORD, headword entry;
> ALSO_CALLED, headword is also commonly called this; CATEGORY, semantic
> label of headword; POS, part of speech; PAST, past form of headword.
> Edinburgh standard Prolog syntax.
>
> Ftp Directory: CLR/members-only/lexica/CED.prolog
>
>
> 2)   The MRC Psycholinguistic Database
>
> Originally prepared by Max Coltheart for a Medical Research Council
> grant as a database for psycholinguistic use.  The file has 150,837
> headwords with 26 linguistic properties, although information on every
> property is not available for very many words.  Properties include
> number of phonemes and syllables, measures of frequency,
> pronunciation, and part of speech, to name a few.
>
> Ftp Directory: CLR/members-only/lexica/MRC.psycholing/
>
>
> 3)   The On-Line Dictionary of Computing
>
> A glossary of programming languages, architecture, networks, domain
> theory, mathematics, etc.  Copyright Dennis Howe 1993, freely
> available for research use.
>
> Ftp Directory: CLR/members-only/lexica/OLDC/
>
>
> 4)   The Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary of Contemporary
> English: Mitton's version
>
> This is a version of the 1974, 3rd edition OALDCE, prepared by Roger
> Mitton of the University of London specifically for use in computer
> applications. The dictionary contains no definitions; the spelling,
> pronunciation, and syntactic information from the original are
> retained. It has 35,000 headwords, about 2,500 added proper names, and
> an added section created by Dr. Mitton which has over 68,000 derived
> inflected forms.
>
> Ftp Directory: CLR/members-only/lexica/OALDCE/
>
>
> 5)   WordNet 1.4
>
> Developed by Professor George Miller and his group at Princeton,
> WordNet is an on-line lexical reference system designed as a semantic
> network.  English nouns, verbs, and adjectives are organized into
> synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept.
> Different relations link the synonym sets: synonymy, antonymy,
> meronomy, and hyponymy.  Wordnet has brief definitions, and has the
> advantage of having been conceived and built explicitly for use in
> computer applications. CLR houses versions 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4.
>
> Ftp Directory: CLR/lexica/wordnet/
>
>
>
> ****Pronunciation Dictionaries ****
>
> The Carnegie Mellon University Dictionary contains about 100,000 words
> and their phonetic transcriptions. The phoneset lists 26 phones that
> were used. Robert Weide and Peter Jansen from CMU generated the
> dictionary from a variety of sources including the UCLA Shoup
> dictionary. A second source for pronunciation is Chuck Wooster's (ICSI
> Berkeley) TIMIT database of 6100 words from TIMIT and their most
> common pronunciation.
>
> Homophones is not a pronunciation dictionary, but rather is a list of
> words that sound the same but are spelled differently. The list of
> homophones was provided by Evan Antworth from the Summer Institute of
> Linguistics.
>
> Ftp Directory: CLR/members-only/lexica/CMU-Dict.0.1/
>
> Ftp Directory: CLR/lexica/TIMIT/
>
> Ftp Directory: CLR/lexica/homophones/
>
>
>
> ****Dictionaries: not English****
>
>
> 1)   EDICT
>
> This is a public domain Japanese/English dictionary intended
> originally for use with MOKE (Marks Own Kanji Editor) but is used
> today in a large number of packages. It uses EUC code for Kanji and
> Kana. EDICT has over 30,000 entries, and entries do have markers, such
> as transitive or intransitive verb, idiomatic expression, person name,
> etc. EDICT was started by Mark Edwards, but has been developed by
> James Breen.
>
> Ftp Directory: CLR/lexica/edictj
>
>
> 2)   JDDICT
>
> A Japanese to German dictionary entered in by Helmut Goldstein. The
> dictionary has over 11,000 Japanese words and 22,000 German
> translations.
>
> Ftp Directory: CLR/lexica/jddict/
>
>
> 3)  The Japanese Morphological Dictionary
>
> This was made freely available by ICOT, and comes with both the
> dictionary and a search program to access it.  The documentation is
> extensive, but it is all in Japanese.
>
> Ftp Directory: CLR/lexica/jmorphdict/
>
>
> 4)   Russian - English On-Line Dictionary
>
> This is an on-line dictionary for MS DOS developed by Leon Ungier.
>
> Ftp Directory: CLR/multiling/russian/
>
>
>
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> RECENT ACQUISTIONS
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>
> Below are some new additions to the CLR archives. The acronym
> dictionary is mentioned because it is in keeping with this
> newsletter's theme. The other materials are parsers and grammar
> systems.
>
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>
> ACRONYM DICTIONARY
>
> Ftp Directory: members-only/lexica/wordlists/acronyms/
>
> An ascii text file of a very comprehensive list of acronyms; over 3300
> entries. A wide variety of domains are covered, including business,
> science, medicine, government, and more. A brief sample from the
> letter `N':
>
> NAS National Academy of Sciences; NAS National Advanced Systems;
> NASA National (US) Aeronautics and Space Administration [Space];
> NASDA NAtional (Japan) Space Development Agency [Space]; NASM	
> National (US) Air and Space Museum [Space]; NASP National (US)
> AeroSpace Plane [Space]; NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
>
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>
> AV Parser
>
> Ftp Directory:	 members-only/tools/ling-analysis/syntax/AVparser/
>
> The Attribute Value Parser provides a general tool for investigating
> unification-based theories of grammar, runs on Apple Macintosh
> computers, and was developed by Mark Johnson. It works with a
> user-defined grammar, specified in a file or constructed using the
> editor included, and constructs parse trees and feature structures
> from input sentences. Clicking on the nodes in the parse tree causes
> their associated feature structures to be displayed. There are two
> versions of the parser, corresponding to the two versions of Apple's
> CommonLisp environment that were used to create them. The 1.32 version
> was created with MACL version 1.32, and the 2.0p2 version was created
> with MCL 2.0p2.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> FUF and SURGE
>
> Ftp Directory: /members-only/tools/ling-analysis/syntax/
>
> FUF 5.2 and SURGE 1.2 were developed by Michael Elhadad, currently at
> Ben Gurion University of the Negev. FUF is an extended implementation
> of the formalism of functional unification grammars (FUG's) introduced
> by Martin Kay, specialized to the task of natural language generation.
> SURGE is a large syntactic realization grammar of English, written in
> FUF. SURGE is developed to serve as a "black box" syntactic generation
> component in a larger generation system that encapsulates a rich
> knowledge of English syntax. SURGE can also be used as a platform for
> exploration of grammar writing with a generation perspective.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> LHIP PARSER
>
> Ftp Directory: members-only/tools/ling-analysis/syntax/
>
> The LHIP parser (Left-Head corner Island Parser) was developed by
> Afzal Ballim, at ISSCO, the University of Geneva. LHIP is a system for
> incremental grammar development using an extended DCG formalism. The
> system uses a robust island-based parsing method controlled by
> user-defined performance thresholds which allows it to analyze what it
> can from the input, thus presenting the grammar developer with results
> at an early stage. The rules themselves are an extended version of the
> DCG rules, allowing optional constituents, negation, disjunction, the
> specification of adjacency, and the ability to mark multiple heads in
> a rule body. The latest version is 1.1. The lhip system requires an
> Edinburgh style Prolog.
>
>
>
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> CLR MEMBERSHIP
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>
> The members-only area of the CLR archives is rapidly increasing its
> volume with valuable materials and software available to lexical
> researchers, members of the consortium. If your interests lie in
> lexicology, lexicography and lexical research, we encourage your
> organization to become a member, promoting the use of these valuable
> resources for lexical research and ensuring that they can be
> maintained.
>
> Welcome to new CLR members:
>
> Edwin R. Addison, President, along with the staff of Conquest
> Software, Inc. in Columbia, Maryland.
>
> Dr. Jose M. Castano at the Departmento de Computacion, Universidad de
> Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
>
> Dr. Jane Edwards of the Institute for Cognitive Studies, and Dr.
> Daniel Jurafsky of the International Computer Science Institute, at
> the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
>
> Dr.  Kemal Oflazer of the Computer Engineering Department, Bilkent
> University, Ankara, Turkey.
>
>
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>  Jeff Bowyer                         EMail:
>  Computing Center		     jbowyer@cis.vutbr.cz
>  Technical University of Brno
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>  Czech Republic
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>


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