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Peer reviewedSinclair, 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
Peer reviewedVenezky, Richard L. – Computers and the Humanities, 1988
Discusses the development of the "Dictionary of Old English," a database of approximately three million running words. Examines how technological advancements have changed the design process since it began in 1970, stating that error checking and protection of the database against accidental intrusion have remained as key issues. (GEA)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Database Design, Databases, Dictionaries
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
