COMLEX syntax a large syntactic dictionary for natural language processing

This article is a detailed account of COMLEX Syntax, an on-line syntactic dictionary of English, developed by the Proteus Project at New York University under the auspices of the Linguistics Data Consortium. This lexicon was intended to be used for a variety of tasks in natural language processing by computer and as such has very detailed classes with a large number of syntactic features and complements for the major parts of speech and is, as far as possible, theory neutral. The dictionary was entered by hand %vith reference to hard copy dictionaries, an on-line concordance and native speakers' intuition. Thus it is without prior encumbrances and can be used for both pure research and commercial purposes.