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EPSRC Reference: GR/H90148/01
Title: INTEGRATED LANGUAGE DATABASE IED4/1/5808
Principal Investigator: Briscoe, Professor EJ
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Department: Computer Science and Technology
Organisation: University of Cambridge
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 June 1994 Ends: 31 May 1997 Value (£): 125,110
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Human Communication in ICT
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Creative Industries
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Objectives:To develop specialised database systems for development of printed and electronic dictionaries and of lexicons for use in large-scale language technology applications, supported by corpus data.Progress:SLE have developed an initial version of the TFS-ILD. This represents lexical data in typed feature structures, encoded in a portable object-oriented database (currently POET). Specification of a generic tools interface (following TEI guidelines) is complete. A prototype user interface has been implemented and feedback received from lexicographers as a result of a site visit to CUP.A new English Learners Dictionary (CIDE - Cambridge International Dictionary of English) has been produced by CUP using the other database system in the project - the CUP-ILD. Tools used in producing the dictionary include a part-of-speech tagger, a morphological analyser, and various collocation measures. Procedures for transfer of the CIDE dictionary data from CUP to SLE for use in the TFS-ILD have been specified, again following TEI guidelines.In addition to work on the generic tools interface Edinburgh University Language Technology Group have developed a morphophonological processor based on the one-level model of phonology. This will be used to lemmatize corpora used in the ILD. Cambridge University Computer Laboratory have, in addition to work on the generic tools interface, developed a probabilistic, unification-based phrasal parser which takes tagged English text and computes a single surface phrasal analysis.
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