The attention of researchers has been drawn to the importance of lexical resources by a number of converging factors such as automation of tasks of natural language processing and emerging of Lexicalism among modern linguistic theories. Computational lexicography and corpus method are gettingto be two major schools of acquisition of lexical information. In view of the situation of the researches on nouns that are very unworthy of their importance in Chinese Information processing (CIP), nouns with their corresponding sense items have bene extracted from Modern Chinese Machine Dictionary to build Modern Chinese Noun Machine Readable Dictionary, which can be used to carry out further syntactic, semantic and other deep researches on nouns and will lay foundation for the construction of Machine Tractable Dictionary for CIP. The methods exploited are mainly based on rules, and reference-based method is also presented according to consistency of parts speech between words and their corresponding defining works.
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