LINGUIST List 10.568

Mon Apr 19 1999

Qs: TESOL Summer Inst., Electronic Eng Dictionaries

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Walkyria Magno e Silva, TESOL Summer Institute

Anne Reboul, Electronic corpus of English dictionnaries

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Message 1: TESOL Summer Institute

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:33:08 -0700
From: Walkyria Magno e Silva <wmagnoamazon.com.br>
Subject: TESOL Summer Institute


Dear colleagues, Is there going to be a TESOL Summer Institute this year? Where can I find out the details? Thank you, Walkyria Magno

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Message 2: Electronic corpus of English dictionnaries

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:15:04 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Anne Reboul <Anne.Reboulloria.fr>
Subject: Electronic corpus of English dictionnaries


Hello,

A colleague of mine, Sabine Ploux from Institut des Sciences Cognitives, has devised an electronic sofware which calculate synonymous words (an electronic dictionnary of synonyms). It has been established through a French corpus of french dictionaries. She would like to do the same thing for English with a goal to automatic translation uses but she would like to know if any electronic corpus of English dictionaries (though not English-French) exists, where it could be available and whether it could free, or, at least, cheap. Would anyone know of such a corpus?

Best Anne Reboul

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