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From: ljones@ivory.trentu.ca (LEN JONES)
Subject: Re: parts of speech on-line?
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In article <31F8EF64.4D48@atinet.org>, Steve Mitchell <steve@atinet.org> writes:
>I'm trying to find a machine readable list of English words with
>their parts of speech.  Given a sample of text, I am attempting to
>find out how many words are nouns and how many are verbs.  
>
>Does anybody know of a source of such information?
>
>Thank you for any pointers.
>
>--steve
>
>-- 

Try Moby

ftp://ftp.dcs.shef.ac.uk/share/ilash/Moby/

hope this helps

len jones
