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From: stickler@utrio.helsinki.fi (Patrick Stickler)
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Subject: NLP & Digital Webster
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Date: 25 Jun 91 05:35:27 GMT
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I'm interested in getting in touch with folks using NeXT workstations for
Natural Language Processing, particularly in connection with Digital
Webster.

I'm considering getting a NeXT for my graduate work in connectionist NLP, the
dictionary being the biggest attraction, but would like some expert feedback
first.

How flexible is retrieval from Webster? Are individual senses/fields
retrievable? I have heard that there are direct links to the thesaurus, is
this so? Is there any explicit dicussion in the software liscence regarding
use on a network (i.e. with non-NeXT machines), use of extracted information,
use of extracted non-explicit (relation-oriented) information, etc., etc...???

Send email and I will post a summary of significant replies.

Thanks,


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     Patrick Stickler       Research Unit for Computational Linguistics
        OH2/KC4YYY              Department of General Linguistics
  stickler@cc.helsinki.fi             University of Helsinki
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