An English dictionary for computerized syntactic and semantic processing systems

Abstract

Our purpose is to construct a 20,000 word core dic¬tionary of English to be used in computerized natural language using systems. It is to include as much syntactico-semantic information as necessary to be used in most current theoretical frameworks both in sentence recognition and production as well as for linguistic studies of English syntax and semantics. We eventually would like to parse the definitions so that this in¬formation can be put in some formal notation and used for further dictionary organization but we feel at the moment that our core-Enghsh dictionary must be pre-requisite to any such definition parsing (cf. O. WERNER, 1972 for a model to account for taxonomic relations derivable from definitions).