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  <Title>Machine Tractable Dictionaries as Tools and Resources for Natural Language Processing</Title>
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ABSTRACT
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper discusses three different but related large-scale computational methods for the transformation of machine readable dictionaries (MRDs) into machine tractable dictionaries, i.e., MRDs converted into a format usable for natural language processing tasks. The MRD used is The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.</Paragraph>
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