Language and Computation

This is a list of resources available between the various departments. Check also Doug's old CL/MT pages: here. For a list of resources available on the Web, check Chris Manning's Stat NLP pages.

Corpora

Many of these corpora are installed in a University-accessible server under /ufs/corpora (\\corpora\corpora from Windows machines). For details about accessing, ask Doug.

• al-Hayat corpus (CS, ask Abdul Goweder)
• British National Corpus (LAL, ask Doug )
• Brown Corpus (CS, ask Massimo)
• Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus (CS, ask Mahmoud)
• GNOME corpus (CS; ask Massimo)
• ICAME CD (contains the Brown corpus, LOB, London-Lund, and a few other corpora) (CS, ask Massimo)
• LOB (CS, LAL; ask Doug or Massimo)
• London-Lund (CS, LAL; ask Doug or Massimo)
• MUC6, MUC7 (CS; ask Massimo)
• Reuters (CS, ask Udo)
• Switchboard (CS, ask Massimo)
• TREC (CS; ask Massimo)
• Verbmobil (CS, ask Massimo)
• Arabic Human Rights Corpus (CS, ask Ayman) download

Lexical Resources

• Concise Medical Dictionary (OUP)
• New Oxford Thesaurus of English (OUP)
• Oxford English Dictionary (OUP)
• Oxford Spanish Dictionary (OUP)
• Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (OUP)
• WordNet (CS, LAL; ask Massimo; accessible from machines in the CS Labs)

(The items marked 'OUP' are available for research purposes under a three-year licence from OUP to Massimo - ask.)

Software

• Connexor Machinese Syntax (CS, installed in the Labs)
• GATE (CS, installed in the Labs) - a multi-purpose NL tool.
• LT-XML tools from LTG, Edinburgh (CS, ask Massimo) - POS tagger, chunker, and tokenizers
• QTAG (CS, installed in the Labs) - a POS tagger from Birmingham