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Lexicon Enhancement via the GOLD Ontology (LEGO) is a project funded by
the National Science Foundation (BCS-0753321) to establish tools and
standards to facilitate the sharing and interoperation of lexical data.
It is implemented jointly by The LINGUIST List at Eastern Michigan University
and The University at Buffalo.
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As an infrastructure project, we are primarily interested in allowing existing lexical
data to be included in our datanet and promoting standards to allow others to construct
comparable datanets, if they so wish. In order to develop this infrastructure,
we have converted a number of legacy resources which have allowed us to test our
approach, but we have not engaged in collecting new lexical data, nor have we tried
augment the information found in these materials beyond what has been needed to achieve
interoperation. In some cases, this may result in omission of important
information in the lexical resources found in our datanet or the inclusion
of erroneous data. In cases where such problems reflect infelicities found
in the original data source, attempting to correct them was considered beyond
the scope of the project. In some cases, additional problems with the data may
have been introduced by our conversion processes--a familiar problem when dealing
with legacy materials. We have tried to put in place procedures to minimize these,
but some certainly remain.
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Nevertheless, we would like the information in our datanet to be as accurate as
possible, and we will do our best to publish any updates or corrections that
are made available to us. If these are given to us using standardized LEGO formats,
we should be able to make them relatively quickly. If not, we will make them as
time allows.
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All data on the LEGO site is, by default, covered under the following Creative
Commons license:
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA). If a lexicon
contributor prefers a different license, their license will take precedence.
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