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Semantics and The Lexicon

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. James Pustejovsky

    1. Department of Computer Science, Brandeis University, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 49)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • James Pustejovsky
      Pages 1-11

  3. Fundamentals of Lexical Structure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. X-Bar Semantics

      • Ray Jackendoff
      Pages 15-26

    3. The Syntax of Metaphorical Semantic Roles

      • George Lakoff
      Pages 27-36

    4. Levels of Lexical Representation

      • Malka Rappaport, Beth Levin, Mary Laughren
      Pages 37-54

    5. Case Marking and the Semantics of Mental Verbs

      • William Croft
      Pages 55-72

    6. Type Coercion and Lexical Selection

      • James Pustejovsky
      Pages 73-94

  4. Mapping from Lexical Semantics to Syntax

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Nominalization and Predicative Prepositional Phrases

      • Jane Grimshaw, Edwin Williams
      Pages 97-105

    3. Adjectives, Nominals, and the Status of Arguments

      • Robert J. P. Ingria, Leland M. George
      Pages 107-127

    4. Unaccusativity in Dutch: Integrating Syntax and Lexical Semantics

      • Annie Zaenen
      Pages 129-161

    5. Verbs in Depictives and Resultatives

      • T. R. Rapoport
      Pages 163-184

    6. Explicit Syntax in the Lexicon: the Representation of Nominalizations

      • Thomas Roeper
      Pages 185-220

  5. Computational Models of Lexical Knowledge

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221
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    2. Lexical Structures and Conceptual Structures

      • John F. Sowa
      Pages 223-262

    3. Lexical Semantic Constraints

      • Dan Fass
      Pages 263-289

    4. Lexical and Conceptual Structure for Knowledge-Based Machine Translation

      • Sergei Nirenburg, Christine Defrise
      Pages 291-323

    5. Models for Lexical Knowledge Bases

      • Branimir Boguraev, Beth Levin
      Pages 325-340
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About this book

The goal of this book is to integrate the research being carried out in the field of lexical semantics in linguistics with the work on knowledge representation and lexicon design in computational linguistics. Rarely do these two camps meet and discuss the demands and concerns of each other's fields. Therefore, this book is interesting in that it provides a stimulating and unique discussion between the computational perspective of lexical meaning and the concerns of the linguist for the semantic description of lexical items in the context of syntactic descriptions. This book grew out of the papers presented at a workshop held at Brandeis University in April, 1988, funded by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. The entire workshop as well as the discussion periods accom­ panying each talk were recorded. Once complete copies of each paper were available, they were distributed to participants, who were asked to provide written comments on the texts for review purposes. VII JAMES PUSTEJOVSKY 1. INTRODUCTION There is currently a growing interest in the content of lexical entries from a theoretical perspective as well as a growing need to understand the organization of the lexicon from a computational view. This volume attempts to define the directions that need to be taken in order to achieve the goal of a coherent theory of lexical organization.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, Brandeis University, USA

    James Pustejovsky

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Semantics and The Lexicon

  • Editors: James Pustejovsky

  • Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1972-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2386-0Published: 26 August 1993

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-1972-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4662

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 416

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Semantics, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics

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