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From: andrew@dgbt.uucp (Andrew Patrick)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Lexicons/Dictionaries for Natural Language Processing
Summary: Check out the CELEX project
Keywords: Natural Language Processing, Lexicons, Dictionaries
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Date: 22 Jun 89 13:44:34 GMT
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Reply-To: andrew@dgbt.crc.dnd.ca (Andrew Patrick)
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Organization: The Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, CANADA
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In article <626@pacsbb.UUCP> rkaplan@pacsbb.UUCP (Randy Kaplan) writes:
>
>I am interested in any commercially available lexicon which can be
>used for natural language processing applications. Are there any
>such products? Is anyone using a commerically available lexicon?
>Any information that you might have about sources and products would
>be helpful.

There is a lexicon project in The Netherlands that may be of interest
to you.  It is called CELEX:  The Center for Lexical Information.
They are putting together large lexical databases for Dutch, English,
and German which include "detailed orthographic, phonetic, syntactic,
morphological, and frequency information".

I don't know much more, I just read their newsletters.  Here is how to
contact them:

CELEX
University of Nijmegen
Wundtlaan 1
6525 XD Nijmegen
The Netherlands
Telephone: (31)- (0)80-515751/512117
EARN/BITNET: celex@hnympi52
SURFnet: celex::celexmail



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