A lexicon module for a grammar development environment

Past approaches to developing an effective lexicon component in a grammar development environment have suffered from a number of usability and efficiency issues. We present a lexical database module currently in use by a number of grammar development projects. The...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Flickinger, Dan, Copestake, Ann, Lambeau, Fabre, Waldron, Benjamin, Bond, Francis, Oepen, Stephan
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Conference Paper
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92078
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7276
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Summary:Past approaches to developing an effective lexicon component in a grammar development environment have suffered from a number of usability and efficiency issues. We present a lexical database module currently in use by a number of grammar development projects. The database module presented addresses issues which have caused problems in the past and the power of a database architecture provides a number of practical advantages as well as a solid framework for future extension.