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From: jiwei@lapu.bristol.ac.uk (J. Wang)
Subject: Re: Prolog dictionary
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Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 13:40:05 GMT
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In article <34ev4e$e8@pinky.shu.ac.uk>, g.martin@shu.ac.uk (Gary Martin) writes:
|> Hello,
|> 
|> Some time ago I remember finding an archive which contained a Prolog-based
|> dictionary of English words. It was a large alphabetically sorted list and each
|> word had some additional information about what part of speech it was - noun, 
|> verb etc. I didn't take a copy at the time and now I can't find it. Does anyone
|> know if/where it's available?
|> 

There's a Collins English Dictionary in the format of Prolog clauses.
This may be what you saw.  It's in ota.ox.ac.uk:ota/dicts/1192.

Have fun.

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