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This paper describes our lexical acquisition system, which supplements knowledge in the lexical database with knowledge acquired from human informants. The database is organized to support the needs of natural language processing applications and facilitate the operation of acquisition system.
This Research was supported by the National Science Foundation under grant IRI-8704619. Our thanks also to G&C Merriam Company, Collins, and Oxford University Press for permission to use their dictionary tapes.
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Pin-Ngern, S., Strutz, R., Evens, M. (1991). Lexical acquisition for lexical databases. In: Sherwani, N.A., de Doncker, E., Kapenga, J.A. (eds) Computing in the 90's. Great Lakes CS 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 507. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0038502
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