Building the CODER Lexicon: The Collins English Dictionary and its Adverb Definitions

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dc.contributorVirginia Tech. Department of Computer Science. Digital Library Research Laboratoryen
dc.contributor.authorFox, Edward A.en
dc.contributor.authorWohlwend, Robert C.en
dc.contributor.authorSheldon, Phyllis R.en
dc.contributor.authorChen, Qi-Fanen
dc.contributor.authorFrance, Robert K.en
dc.contributor.departmentDigital Library Research Laboratoryen
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Scienceen
dc.date.accessed2014-09-05en
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-29T20:36:38Zen
dc.date.available2015-05-29T20:36:38Zen
dc.date.issued1986-10-01en
dc.description.abstractThe CODER (COmposite Document Expert/extended/effective Retrieval) project is an investigation of the applicability of artificial intelligence techniques to the information retrieval task of analyzing, storing, and retrieving heterogeneous collections of "composite documents. "In order to support some of the processing desired, and to allow experimentation in information retrieval and natural language processing, a lexicon was constructed from the machine readable Collins Dictionary of the English Language. After giving background, motivation, and a survey of related work, the Collins lexicon is discussed. Following is a description of the conversion process, the format of the resulting Prolog database, and characteristics of the dictionary and relations. To illustrate what is present and to explain how it relates to the files produced from Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, a number of comparative charts are given. Finally, a grammar for adverb definitions is presented, together with a description of defining formula that usually indicate the type of the adverb. Ultimately it is hoped that definitions for adverbs and other words will be parsed so that the relational lexicon being constructed will include many additional relationships and other knowledge about words and their usage.en
dc.format.extent27 pagesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationFox, Edward A., Robert C. Wohlwend, Phyllis R. Sheldon, Qi-Fan Chen and Robert K. France. "Building the CODER Lexicon: The Collins English Dictionary and Its Adverb Definitions." Technical Report TR-86-23. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science, October 1986.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/52851en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.dlib.vt.edu/reports/Lexicon.pdfen
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectCODERen
dc.subjectLexiconsen
dc.subjectInformation retrievalen
dc.subjectData structuresen
dc.subjectNatural language interfacesen
dc.subjectRelation systemsen
dc.subjectLanguage parsing and understandingen
dc.subjectText analysisen
dc.titleBuilding the CODER Lexicon: The Collins English Dictionary and its Adverb Definitionsen
dc.typeTechnical reporten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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