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Sinclair, J. M.; Kirby, D. M. – World Englishes, 1990
Presents a progress report of the Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary project; discusses the corpus; and presents the historical, theoretical, and methodological bases for the project. Observations are presented on the wider implications of the COBUILD project. Contains 30 references. (GLR)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Database Design, Dictionaries, Grammar
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Conlon, 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