Framework: Funded partly by DG XIII E 4 of the Commission of the European Community, Luxembourg (under the LRE programme, Linguistic Research and Engineering).
Description of the project: in a cooperation between computational and theoretical linguists, lexicographers and software builders, tools for the corpus-based construction of lexicons are developed. These tools support the acquisition of linguistic evidence from textual corpora, as well as the construction, maintenance and prototyping-like stepwise enhancement of lexical descriptions in the format of typed feature structures. Parallel dictionary fragments for the major lexical semantic classes of English, French, Italian, Danish and Dutch will be described, at the levels of syntax and semantics, including in particular the interaction between the two levels. The representation of lexical descriptions and the tools for population of dictionary models and for model evolution will be based on the typed feature structure system, TFS, an implementation of typed feature logics developed in a previous project of the institute, since 1988.
Duration: 02-1993 through 04-1995; the IMS has 2 full time posts in the project and is its coordinator (overall workload of all partners: 170 person-months).
Publications: List of Publications
IMS Contact Point: Ulrich Heid (uli@ims.uni-stuttgart.de)