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Peer reviewedMontgomery, Michael B.; And Others – American Speech, 1989
Briefly explores the usage patterns of American English words, terms, or expressions such as "y'all" and other second plural pronouns, English conditionals, "greasy' by East-Central Pennsylvanians, who or whom, the genderless "-person" suffix, and Russianisms. (CB)
Descriptors: Dialects, Language Patterns, Language Variation, Lexicography
Developing a Large Lexical Database for Information Retrieval, Parsing, and Text Generation Systems.
Peer reviewedConlon, Sumali Pin-Ngern; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Important characteristics of lexical databases and their applications in information retrieval and natural language processing are explained. An ongoing project using various machine-readable sources to build a lexical database is described, and detailed designs of individual entries with examples are included. (Contains 66 references.) (EAM)
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Database Design, Databases, Dictionaries
