... transducers to enrich a dictionary Formal Description We deal with noun phrases containing a description of an occupation, a proper noun, or both combined For example, 'a senior R A F o]flcer', ... full description of the specific phrases actually used to describe occupations We also use large coverage dictionaries, and libraries of general purpose finite state transducers Our algorithm ... according Zipf's law 1(Zipf, 1932) We are particularly interested in finding noun phrases containing or referring to proper nouns, in order to answer the following requests: Who is John Major? Find...