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  <Title>Rebuilding the Oxford Dictionary of English as a semantic network</Title>
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2 Method
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The major steps in this process were as follows: 1. Decomposition of the dictionary as a flat list of entries, to be replaced by a set of lexical objects (each corresponding roughly to a single lexeme-meaning pair in the original dictionary, and minimally retaining all the text of that meaning) (section 4 below).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1">  1 See Ide and Veronis 1993 for a good account of this tension.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> 2. Population of each lexical object with a complete set of morphological and syntactic data (section 5 below). 3. Classification connecting lexical objects to each other in semantic hierarchies and networks of domain relationships (section 6 below).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> 3 Choice of dictionary  The dictionary selected was the Oxford Dictionary of English (2003) (ODE). This is a relatively high-level dictionary, intended for fluent English speakers rather than learners. Accordingly, it assumes a body of general knowledge and a degree of semantic and grammatical competence on the part of the user: not everything is made explicit in the text.</Paragraph>
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