The COMLEX Syntax Project

Developing more shareable resources to support natural language analysis will make it easier and cheaper to create new language processing applications and to support research in computational linguistics. One natural candidate for such a resource is a broad-coverage dictionary, since the work required to create such a dictionary is large but there is general agreement on at least some of the information to be recorded for each word. The Linguistic Data Consortium has begun an effort to create several such lexical resources, under the rubric "COMLEX" (COMmon LEXicon); one of these projects is the COMLEX Syntax Project.