SRC Research Report 092a

Hector: Connecting Words with Definitions

Lucille Glassman, Dennis Grinberg, Cynthia Hibbard, James Meehan, Loretta Guarino Reid, Mary-Claire van Leunen

Hector is a feasibility study on high-tech corpus lexicography. Oxford University Press provided the lexicographers and a corpus of 20 millionwords of running English text; Digital Equipment Corporation Systems Research Center provided the high-tech tools to enable the lexicographers to do all of their work on-line.

The tools provide the ability to query the corpus in various ways and see the resulting matches, to write and edit dictionary entries, and to link each occurrence of a word in the corpus with its sense as displayed in the entry editor. Additional support tools give statistical information about words in the corpus, derivatives and related words, syntactic structures, collocates, and case-variants.

This report describes the tools and the status of the project as of July 1992.

Videotape 92b accompanies the above report (Time: 14:34)

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