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Patrick Saint-Dizier
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IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-viii
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- Federica Busa, Daniele Dubois, Christiane Fellbaum, Patrick Saint-Dizier, Evelyne Viegas
Pages 53-91
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- Evelyne Viegas, Kavi Mahesh, Sergei Nirenburg, Stephen Beale
Pages 171-203
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- M. Palmer, J. Rosenzweig, W. Schuler
Pages 229-256
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- Jacques Jayez, Corinne Rossari
Pages 285-319
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Back Matter
Pages 375-379
About this book
This volume is a selection of papers presented at a workshop entitled Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases organized in Toulouse in August 1996. A predicate is a named relation that exists among one or more arguments. In natural language, predicates are realized as verbs, prepositions, nouns and adjectives, to cite the most frequent ones. Research on the identification, organization, and semantic representa tion of predicates in artificial intelligence and in language processing is a very active research field. The emergence of new paradigms in theoretical language processing, the definition of new problems and the important evol ution of applications have, in fact, stimulated much interest and debate on the role and nature of predicates in naturallangage. From a broad theoret ical perspective, the notion of predicate is central to research on the syntax semantics interface, the generative lexicon, the definition of ontology-based semantic representations, and the formation of verb semantic classes. From a computational perspective, the notion of predicate plays a cent ral role in a number of applications including the design of lexical knowledge bases, the development of automatic indexing systems for the extraction of structured semantic representations, and the creation of interlingual forms in machine translation.
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`...it does, nonetheless, present a useful and eclectic review of European and US work in computational lexical semantics and is particularly informative for those working at the lexical semanticssyntax interface.'
Linguistics, Volume 37 (2001)
Editors and Affiliations
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IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Patrick Saint-Dizier
