Ontologies, taxonomies, and dictionaries involve related issues about words, meanings, definitions, and methods for analyzing documents to derive definitions. There is a free on-line course on dictionaries that is taught by four researchers who have backgrounds in linguistics, lexicography, and NLP. It starts on Monday, September 16. See the URL and except below. John _______________________________________________________________ https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/understanding-dictionaries The reasons why we use dictionaries.The differences between landmark dictionaries such as the Oxford English Dictionary and less conventional products such as collaborative and crowdsourced dictionaries.What goes into a dictionary who decides, and how?Dictionaries and dictionary information for different users.The stages in corpus-based lexicography.How meanings are created, why some words have more than one meaning, how lexicographers identify meanings and how meanings are explained in a dictionary.
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