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  <Title>A SEMANTIC CONCORDANCE</Title>
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8. CONCLUSION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The fact that we have control of the lexical component of our semantic concordance enables us to shape the lexicon to fit the corpus. It would be possible, of course, to create a specific semantic concordance with a lexicon limited strictly to the words occurring in the accompanying corpus. That constraint would have certain size advantages, but would miss the opportunity to build a single general lexicon onto which a wide variety of corpora could be mapped.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The universal semantic concordance described here has enabled us to improve WordNet and has given us a tool for our studies of sense resolution in context. In the course of this exercise, however, it has become apparent to us that cross-referencing a lexicon and a textual corpus produces a hybrid resource that will be useful in a variety of practical and scientific applications. It has occurred to us that semantic concordances might be even more useful if a richer syntactic component could be incorporated, but how best to accomplish that is presently a question for the future.</Paragraph>
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