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  <Title>A Animal B Female Animal C Concrete D Male Animal E 'S' + 'L' F Female tluman G Gas It ltuma~ I Inanimate J Movable K Male ('D' + 'M') L Liquid M Male Human N Not Movable O 'A' + 'II' P Plant Q Animate R Female ('B' + 'P)</Title>
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The extraction of semantic relations between verbs and nouns from LDOCE is discussed. Data from the magnetic version of LDOCE is first loaded into a relational database system for simplicity of retrieving. For the extraction of semantic relations, programs to find key verb, key noun, and function noun have been developed. Using these programs, the thesaurus is automatically produced.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> * b evaluate the quality of the noun part of the produced thesaurus, it is compared with the semantic markers in LDOCE. Although the produced thesaurus has several problems such as the difficulty of expressing disjunctive concepts, the comparison between the produced thesaurus and semantic markers in LDOCE shows the possibility of sub-classifiCation of 'abstract' nouns.</Paragraph>
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