Machine tractable dictionaries as tools and resources for NL prosessing

نویسندگان

  • Yorick Wilks
  • Dan Fass
  • Cheng-ming Guo
  • James E. McDonald
  • Tony Plate
  • Brian M. Slator
چکیده

This paper discusses three different but related large-scale computational methods for the transformation of machine readable dictionaries (MRDs) into machine tractable dictionaries, i.e., MRDs converted into a format usable for natural language processing tasks. The MRD used is The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.

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تاریخ انتشار 1988