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The IIT Lexical Database: Dream and Reality

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Current Issues in Computational Linguistics: In Honour of Don Walker

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This paper describes IITLEX, a lexical database under development at Illinois Institute of Technology. It emphasizes the sources of the data and the organization of the database.

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  1. University of Mississippi, USA

    Sumali Pin-Ngern Conlon

  2. Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

    Joanne Dardaine, Agnes D’Souza, Martha Evens, Sherwood Haynes, Jong-Sun Kim & Robert Strutz

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Conlon, S.PN. et al. (1994). The IIT Lexical Database: Dream and Reality. 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_11

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