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From: sasjqk@sable.unx.sas.com (John Kohl)
Subject: Re: Children's Dictionary
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In article <01bc1ae6$a8467000$cf15dbcf@honey>, "Paul Tan" <ptan@compudyn.com> writes:
|> Hi!
|> 
|> I'm doing some research experiments into machine learning, and I was 
|> wondering if anyone knows of a children's dictionary that is available
|> on the net.
|> 
|> Basically, I am looking for a simple list of common (or most commonly
|> used words), with a definition of each word.
|> 

The book by Dale and O'Rourke may be what you're looking for, and 
perhaps you'd be interested in the others as well:

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Carroll, John B., Peter Davies, and Barry Richman.  _The American
Heritage Word Frequency Book_.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971.  [Ranks
87,000 words found in frequency counts of 5 million words.]

Dale, E., and J. O'Rourke.  _The Living Word Vocabulary_.  Elgin, IL:
Dome, 1976.  "Lists meanings of words known at different grade levels."

Sakiey, E., and E. Fry.  _3,000 Instant Words_.  Providence, RI:
Jamestown Publishers, 1979.  "The 3,000 most used words in English, both
in rank and in alpha order.  The commonness of the variant forms (adding
s, ed, ness, etc.) is given for each word."

Thorndike, E.L., and I. Lorge.  _The Teacher's Word Book of 30,000
Words_.  New York: Teachers College, 1944.  "The standard reference for
relative word frequencies, although Carroll, Davies, and Richman (1971)
is a more recent compilation."

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John Kohl
