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Sum: Electronic Dictionary on CD-ROM
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| Author: | Ping Li | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Lexicography
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Dear LINGUIST colleagues, A few weeks ago I sent out an email inquiry on electronic dictionaries of English. I would like to thank the following people for their kind replies: Helmut Feldweg Lance Eccles Richard Cook Sean Burke James Vanden Bosch Guillaume Gantard Patrizia Bonaventura Akai Joanne Kirk Fraser They have pointed out that there are many CD-ROM dictionaries on the market, for example: Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (OALD) Webster's New World dictionary, 3rd college edition (1988) Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE) Oxford English Dictionary American Heritage dictionary Merriam-Webster's Dictionary (10th ed.) Macquarie Dictionary (for Australian English) However, what I have been looking for is an electronic dictionary whose lexical items and definitions are readable directly in plain ASCII texts (on which I can run standard UNIX search or data manipulation commands). Although all of the electronic dictionaries on CD-ROM do have underlying plain ASCII texts, these texts are encrypted and extraction or manipulation on them cause copyright violations. Sean Burke did point out that the Project Gutenberg has released an e-text version of Webster's Unabridged (1913) and it can be queried at: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ forms_unrest/webster.form.html. The SGML source files (45mb, in pieces) can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.prairienet.org/pub/providers/ gutenberg/etext96/. Helmut Feldweg also pointed out that Longman has just released LDOCE on CD-ROM suitable for NLP purposes. Once again, I want to thank the colleagues who shared their very useful information with me. Sincerely, Ping Li Ping Li, Ph.D. Email: ping@cogsci.richmond.edu Department of Psychology http://www.urich.edu/~pli/ University of Richmond Phone: (804) 289-8125 Richmond, VA 23173 Fax: (804) 289-8943 |
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| LL Issue: | 8.504 | |
| Date Posted: | 12-Apr-1997 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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