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Keywords: USAS, semantic tagging
http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/usas/usas%20guide.pdf
The semantic tagset used by USAS was originally loosely based on Tom McArthur’s Longman Lexicon of Contemporary English (McArthur, 1981). It has a multi-tier structure with 21 major discourse fields (shown here on the right), subdivided, and with the possibility of further fine-grained subdivision in certain cases. We have written an introduction to the USAS category system (PDF file) with examples of prototypical words and multi-word units in each semantic field.
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| Institution: | Lancaster University |
| Year of publication: | 2002 |
| Language: | english |
| Type: | user manual |
| Audience: | linguists |
| Level: | intermediate |
| Prerequisites: | some knowlegde in semantics |
| Media: | text/pdf |
| Objective: | Introduction to the USAS semantic tags |
| Licence: | |
| Access: | open |
| Creation date: | Tuesday, 1 September 2015 18:19:18 |
| Last modified: | Saturday, 13 April 2024 16:42:45 |
| BibTeX type: | @misc |
@misc(TeLeMaCo:343,
author = "Archer, Dawn and Wilson, Andrew and Rayson, Paul",
title = "{I}ntroduction to the {U}{S}{A}{S} category system",
year = "2002",
url = "http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/usas/usas\%20guide.pdf"
)
