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For the analysis of continuous discourse in a wide range of corpora, it is essential both to model and to expand whole-language lexical resources (e.g.,Roget’s International Thesaurus), in order to make such whole-language lexical resources adaptable to differentiated-discourse domains by means of rapid extensibility. Thus, rapidly extensible lexicons are of interest as special-domain extensions to a whole-language lexicon. My presentation argues for the validity of this approach, with specific reference to a viable conceptual, whole-language, foundational lexicon,Roget’s International Thesaurus (1962).
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This research was supported by Grant IRI-9114068 from the U.S. National Science Foundation, Knowledge Models and Cognitive Systems Program.
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Sedelow, S.Y. Formally modeling and extending whole-language-scale semantic space. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 25, 322–327 (1993). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03204519
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