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The present contribution describes an enterprise in collecting lexical data for an English parser in the context of a bilingual research project. The primary source of grammatical information is a computer usable version of OALD (Hornby, 1974). The target lexicon’s structure of verbal valency frames, inspired by the theoretical framework of functional generative description, includes an underlying level. Its content can be derived under some human supervision from OALD’s verb pattern codes. Results confirm the usefulness of machine readable dictionaries for NLP applications.
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Hajičová, E., Rosen, A. (1994). Machine Readable Dictionary as a Source of Grammatical Information. In: Zampolli, A., Calzolari, N., Palmer, M. (eds) Current Issues in Computational Linguistics: In Honour of Don Walker. Linguistica Computazionale, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-35958-8_10
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