Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons

by Viegas, Evelyne; Association for Computational Linguistics

• ISBN13: 9780792360391
• ISBN10: 0792360397
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Contributors	ix
Introduction	xi
Evelyne Viegas
I. LEXICAL RULES AND UNDERSPECIFICATION
Categorization of Types and Application of Lexical Rules	3	(16)
Boyan A. Onyshkevych
The Lexical Semantics of English Count and Mass Nouns	19	(20)
Brendan S. Gillon
Lexical Rules and Lexical Organization: Productivity in the Lexicon	39	(20)
Onur T. Sehitoglu
Cem Bozsahin
Word Disambiguation by Lexical Underspecification	59	(20)
Antonio Sanfillippo
II. BREADTH OF SEMANTIC LEXICONS
Acquisition of Semantic Lexicons: Using Word Sense Disambiguation to Improve Precision	79	(20)
Bonnie J. Dorr
Doug Jones
Lexical Rules for Deverbal Adjectives	99	(22)
Victor Raskin
Sergei Nirenburg
Building and Maintaining a Semantically Adequate Lexicon Using CYC	121	(26)
Kathy J. Burns
Anthony R. Davis
III. DEPTH OF SEMANTIC LEXICONS
The Adjective ``Vieux'': The Point of View of ``Generative Lexicon''	147	(20)
Pierrette Bouillon
Qualia Structure and the Compositional Interpretation of Compounds	167	(22)
Michael Johnston
Federica Busa
Integrating Machine Readable Dictionary and Thesaurus for Conceptual Context Representation of Word Sense	189	(38)
J.N. Chen
J.S. Chang
Using Lexical Semantic Techniques to Classify Free-Responses	227	(20)
Jil Burstein
Susanne Wolff
Chi Lu
IV. LEXICAL SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS
Semantics via Conceptual and Lexical Relations	247	(16)
Christiane Fellbaum
Opening the World with Active Words and Concept Triggers	263	(20)
Evelyne Viegas
Supply-Side and Demand-Side Lexical Semantics	283	(16)
Sergei Nirenburg
Victor Raskin
Lexical Rules is Italicized	299	(22)
Stephen Helmreich
David Farwell
Subject Index	321	(4)
Author Index	325