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| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Machine-Readable Texts and Dictionaries | |
| A Short History of Meaning | |
| Meaning as Nonsymbolic | |
| Intermediate Cases | |
| Meaning as Symbolic | |
| Meaning as Reference | |
| Meaning as Physical Manipulation, Action, or Behavior | |
| Verificationism | |
| Procedural Semantics | |
| Fregean Functionalism | |
| Connectionism | |
| Meaning and Information Theory | |
| Meanings as Stereotypes | |
| Symbolic Accounts of Definitional Meaning | |
| Truth Conditions as a Theory of Meaning | |
| Meaning as Deductive or Inferential Relations | |
| Meaning as Equivalent to Symbolic Structures | |
| Primitives in Meaning Definition | |
| Escape Arguments | |
| Putnam's Argument | |
| Charniak's Argument | |
| Toward a Clearer View of Semantic Primitives | |
| Wordbooks as Human Artifacts: Dictionaries and Thesauri | |
| The Standard Dictionary | |
| The Classic Thesaurus | |
| Bilingual Dictionaries | |
| Style Dictionaries | |
| Concordances | |
| Are there Psychological Constraints on Dictionaries? | |
| Are Word Senses Real? | |
| Kay's Mental Lexicon vs. Concrete Dictionaries | |
| Further Problems with Dictionaries | |
| Early Computational Approaches: Tasks and Tools | |
| Computing Over Whole Dictionaries: Olney and Revard at SDC | |
| Amsler's Thesis | |
| Michiel's Early Work on LDOCE | |
| Lattices and Thesauri | |
| Sparck Jones's Thesis and the Transition to Information Retrieval | |
| Information Retrieval and Thesauri | |
| Up to Modern Times: Wilks on Theasuri and Frames | |
| Text Analysis and its Relationship to Dictionaries: Dictionaries as Texts | |
| The Dictionary as a Text: LDOCE and COBUILD | |
| LDOCE: A Basic MRD | |
| COBUILD | |
| Dictionaries as Texts | |
| Cheng-Ming Guo: Deriving Semantic Primitives from MRD | |
| Dictionaries as Knowledge Structures | |
| Text Analysis on a Large Scale | |
| TIPSTER | |
| The NMSU-Brandeis System | |
| Tuning GLS Entries Against a Corpus | |
| Walker and Amsler | |
| Pathtrieve | |
| Pathfinder Networks | |
| The Construction of Modern Lexicons | |
| Lexicons vs. Wordbooks | |
| AI and Linguistic Principles of Lexicon (Re)construction | |
| Dorr (1991): UNITRAN Machine Translation | |
| Using the Grammar Coding System of LDOCE | |
| AI and Psychological Principles of Lexicon (Re)construction | |
| WordNet | |
| The CyC Project | |
| Lexical Acquisition from Human Subjects | |
| NMSU's Pathfinder | |
| Lexical Acquisition from Texts | |
| Lexical Workbenches: Carnegie Mellon's ONTOS and MCC's LUKE | |
| Extended-Aspect Calculus | |
| The "Neutral Lexicon"? | |
| Automatic Techniques for Analyzing Machine-Readable Dictionaries | |
| Pattern Matching and Parsing | |
| Explicit and Implicit Dictionary Information | |
| Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Machine-Readable Dictionaries | |
| Database Approaches to the Machine-Tractable Dictionary | |
| IBM: Dictionary Entry Parsing | |
| Semantic Approaches to the Machine-Tractable Dictionary | |
| Boguraev and Levin | |
| Defining Formulas and the Relational Lexicon: Illinois and Liege | |
| Categories for Prepositions | |
| The NMSU School | |
| NMSU: The Defining Spiral | |
| The SPIRAL Procedure | |
| The ARC Procedure | |
| The NMSU Lexicon Provider | |
| Constructing the Lexicon | |
| Contextual Structure | |
| Enriching Frames | |
| The Tree Interpreter | |
| Alshawi | |
| The Dutch School: Tagging the LDOCE "Corpus" | |
| Genus Hierarchies and Networks | |
| The Basic Technique | |
| Overview of the Work | |
| Extracting Semantic Networks from LDOCE | |
| Finding the Genus Term | |
| The Empty Head Heuristic | |
| The Disambiguated Network of Noun Senses--NounSense | |
| Evaluation | |
| General Topology | |
| Statistics | |
| Numerical Methods for Language Processing | |
| Techniques for Aiding in the Construction of Dictionaries | |
| Limited Domains | |
| Disambiguation Relative to Translations into Another Language | |
| Disambiguation Relative to a Single Language | |
| CRL Techniques for Word Sense Disambiguation in Dictionaries | |
| Co-occurrence Neighborhoods | |
| Subject-Dependent Neighborhoods | |
| Word Sense Disambiguation in General Texts | |
| Lexical Disambiguation Using Simulated Annealing | |
| Simulated Annealing | |
| Word-Sense Disambiguation with Simulated Annealing | |
| Experiments | |
| Automatic Processing of Bilingual Dictionaries | |
| Bilingual Dictionaries | |
| The ACQUILEX Project | |
| Catizone, Russel, and Warwick | |
| White | |
| Klavans and Tzoukermann | |
| Neff and McCord | |
| The NMSU Computing Research Laboratory | |
| NORM: The CRL Translator's Assistant | |
| Consumer Projects Using Machine-Readable Dictionaries | |
| The Automatic Creation of Lexical Entries for Machine Translation | |
| ULTRA | |
| The System of Intermediate Representation | |
| The Language Components | |
| ULTRA's Lexicons | |
| The Automatic Construction of Lexical Items | |
| Approaches to Achieving Full Specification | |
| Pangloss | |
| Lexical Levels: An Overview of the Lexicons | |
| Spanish Lexical Entries | |
| Intermediate Representations | |
| English Lexical Entries for Generation | |
| Interdependence and Uniformity of Representations | |
| Use of Automated Procedures | |
| Conclusion | |
| Slator's PREMO: Knowledge-Based Parsing | |
| Language Objects | |
| Control Structure | |
| Text Structure | |
| Text Lexicon | |
| IBM: Deciding Attachments | |
| The Present | |
| Piggybacking a Dictionary from a Corpus and a "Seed" MRD | |
| New Modes of Dictionary Construction | |
| The Japanese EDR Project | |
| The New Cambridge Dictionary | |
| The Oxford-DEC dictionary: The Hector Project | |
| Organizational Developments | |
| ACQUILEX | |
| The "Survey of NLP Lexicons" | |
| The Linguistic Data Consortium | |
| The Consortium for Lexical Research | |
| Resources and Services of the Consortium | |
| Conclusion: Evaluating Lexicons? | |
| Is the MRD Era Over? | |
| References | |
| Index | |
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