Abstract
As part of a project to construct an interactive program which would encourage children to play with language by building jokes, we developed a lexical database, starting from WordNet. To the existing information about part of speech, synonymy, hyponymy, etc., we have added phonetic representations and phonetic similarity ratings for pairs of words/phrases.
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This work, and the preparation of this paper, was supported by grants GR/S15402/01, GR/S15419/01 and EP/E011764/1 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
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Manurung, R., Ritchie, G., Pain, H. et al. Adding phonetic similarity data to a lexical database. Lang Resources & Evaluation 42, 319–324 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-008-9069-5
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