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    *** reposted in response to recent request for online dictionaries ***

Subject: Re: machine-readable dictionaries


    Here's a summary of replies to my query on sci.lang.  I also received
some papers on MRDs; let me know if you would like copies.

    I recently queried the net community about computerized
    dictionaries which contained part-of-speech information.  Here's
a digest of the responses.


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>From the Oxford Text Archives:
     Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Contemporary English
     Collins English Dictionary.

>From ?
     Webster's Pocket Dictionary (Amsler's thesis used this one)
     Longmans Dictionary of Contemporary English.

>From Gage Publishers:
     Gage Canadian Dictionary

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	Automated Language Processing Systems
	190 West 800 North
	Provo, UT  84601
	Tel. (801) 375-0090

They have a wide variety of machine readable dictionaries (in several
languages).  They are not on USENET but you could get in touch with
them by telephone or mail.  Talk to either Robert Goode or Logan Wright.


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You may wish to consult a report by Robert Amsler on computerized
dictionaries that appeared in the Annual review for Inf Sc and Tech
Vol 19,  1984, pp 161-209.


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A book you may be interested in:
 Erik Akkerman
 Pieter Masereeuw
 Willem Meijs
 1985
 Designing a Computerized Lexicon for Linguistic Purposes
 ASCOT Report No. 1 
 Rodopi
 Amsterdam
 A comparison of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and
	   the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary for the purposes of NLP
	   research.
Both dictionaries are apparently available on tape, and both have part of
speech info included.  (The report favors Longman's dictionary.)  
-- 
       Dave Stoffel (703) 790-5357
       seismo!mimsy!dave
       dave@Mimsy.umd.edu