Carter Revard
ABSTRACT
Complete magnetic tape transcriptions of Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (hereafter W7) and The New Merriam-Webster Pocket Dictionary (hereafter MPD) are now being examined by Olney, Reichert, Revard, and others as part of the Lexicographic Project (directed by Olney) at System Development Corporation.1,2 Programs are being used or written to process these transcriptions in various ways, both automatically and interactively.
The present paper discusses aspects of the structure of this large data base and describes some research procedures by which we are taking (or hope to take) advantage of that structure. The particular procedures described are meant to throw light on semantic relations and connections within the English lexicon; specifically, to trace so far as possible synonymous, derivational, and hierarchical relations between word senses in W7 and MPD. As will become apparent, procedures for tracing synonymous relations are more advanced and computable at present than those, somewhat dimly envisioned, for tracing derivational and hierarchical relations.It is hoped, however, that the attempt to describe the procedures will be of interest to others studying the English lexicon or those of other languages; at least it should provoke critical questioning, likely to be of use to us and perhaps to others.
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Index Terms
- On the computability of certain monsters in Noah's Ark: Using computers to study Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary and The New Merriam-Webster Pocket Dictionary
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