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Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Evelyne Viegas

    1. Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA

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Part of the book series: Text, Speech and Language Technology (TLTB, volume 10)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Lexical Rules and Underspecification

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Categorization of Types and Application of Lexical Rules

      • Boyan A. Onyshkevych
      Pages 3-17

    3. The Lexical Semantics of English Count and Mass Nouns

      • Brendan S. Gillon
      Pages 19-37

    4. Lexical Rules and Lexical Organization: Productivity in the Lexicon

      • Onur T. Sehitoglu, Cem Bozsahin
      Pages 39-57

    5. Word Disambiguation by Lexical Underspecification

      • Antonio Sanfilippo
      Pages 59-76

  3. Breadth of Semantic Lexicons

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. Acquisition of Semantic Lexicons

      • Bonnie J. Dorr, Doug Jones
      Pages 79-97

    3. Lexical Rules for Deverbal Adjectives

      • Victor Raskin, Sergei Nirenburg
      Pages 99-119

    4. Building and Maintaining a Semantically Adequate Lexicon Using Cyc

      • Kathy J. Burns, Anthony R. Davis
      Pages 121-143

  4. Depth of Semantic Lexicons

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. The Adjective “Vieux”: The Point of View of “Generative Lexicon”

      • Pierrette Bouillon
      Pages 147-166

    3. Qualia Structure and the Compositional Interpretation of Compounds

      • Michael Johnston, Federica Busa
      Pages 167-187

    4. Integrating Machine Readable Dictionary and Thesaurus for Conceptual Context Representation of Word Sense

      • Jen Nan Chen, Jason S. Chang
      Pages 189-225

    5. Using Lexical Semantic Techniques to Classify Free-Responses

      • Jill Burstein, Susanne Wolff, Chi Lu
      Pages 227-244

  5. Lexical Semantics and Pragmatics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245
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    2. Semantics via Conceptual and Lexical Relations

      • Christiane Fellbaum
      Pages 247-262

    3. Opening the World with Active Words and Concept Triggers

      • Evelyne Viegas
      Pages 263-282

    4. Supply-Side and Demand-Side Lexical Semantics

      • Sergei Nirenburg, Victor Raskin
      Pages 283-298

    5. Lexical Rules is Italicized

      • Stephen C. Helmreich, David L. Farwell
      Pages 299-319
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About this book

Most of the books about computational (lexical) semantic lexicons deal with the depth (or content) aspect of lexicons, ignoring the breadth (or coverage) aspect. This book presents a first attempt in the community to address both issues: content and coverage of computational semantic lexicons, in a thorough manner. Moreover, it addresses issues which have not yet been tackled in implemented systems such as the application time of lexical rules. Lexical rules and lexical underspecification are also contrasted in implemented systems. The main approaches in the field of computational (lexical) semantics are represented in the present book (including Wordnet, CyC, Mikrokosmos, Generative Lexicon).
This book embraces several fields (and subfields) as different as: linguistics (theoretical, computational, semantics, pragmatics), psycholinguistics, cognitive science, computer science, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, statistics and natural language processing. The book also constitutes a very good introduction to the state of the art in computational semantic lexicons of the late 1990s.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA

    Evelyne Viegas

About the editor

Evelyne Viegas is a computational linguist and principal investigator at the Computing Research Laboratory of New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

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