Conquering Language: Using NLP on a Massive Scale to Build High Dimensional Language Models from the Web

Abstract : Dictionaries only contain some of the information we need to know about a language. The growth of the Web, the maturation of linguistic process-ing tools, and the decline in price of memory storage allow us to envision de-scriptions of languages that are much larger than before. We can conceive of building a complete language model for a language using all the text that is found on the Web for this language. This article describes our current project to do just that.