Parsing vs. text processing in the analysis of dictionary definitions

Authors:
Thomas Ahlswede;Martha Evens
Affiliations:
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL;Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
Venue:
ACL '88 Proceedings of the 26th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Year:
1988

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Abstract

We have analyzed definitions from Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary using Sager's Linguistic String Parser and again using basic UNIX text processing utilities such as grep and awk. This paper evaluates both procedures, compares their results, and discusses possible future lines of research exploiting and combining their respective strengths.