Ebook: Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons

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.

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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.

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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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Categorization of Types and Application of Lexical Rules....Pages 3-17
The Lexical Semantics of English Count and Mass Nouns....Pages 19-37
Lexical Rules and Lexical Organization: Productivity in the Lexicon....Pages 39-57
Word Disambiguation by Lexical Underspecification....Pages 59-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Acquisition of Semantic Lexicons....Pages 79-97
Lexical Rules for Deverbal Adjectives....Pages 99-119
Building and Maintaining a Semantically Adequate Lexicon Using Cyc....Pages 121-143
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
The Adjective “Vieux”: The Point of View of “Generative Lexicon”....Pages 147-166
Qualia Structure and the Compositional Interpretation of Compounds....Pages 167-187
Integrating Machine Readable Dictionary and Thesaurus for Conceptual Context Representation of Word Sense....Pages 189-225
Using Lexical Semantic Techniques to Classify Free-Responses....Pages 227-244
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Semantics via Conceptual and Lexical Relations....Pages 247-262
Opening the World with Active Words and Concept Triggers....Pages 263-282
Supply-Side and Demand-Side Lexical Semantics....Pages 283-298
Lexical Rules is Italicized....Pages 299-319
Back Matter....Pages 321-329

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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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Categorization of Types and Application of Lexical Rules....Pages 3-17
The Lexical Semantics of English Count and Mass Nouns....Pages 19-37
Lexical Rules and Lexical Organization: Productivity in the Lexicon....Pages 39-57
Word Disambiguation by Lexical Underspecification....Pages 59-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Acquisition of Semantic Lexicons....Pages 79-97
Lexical Rules for Deverbal Adjectives....Pages 99-119
Building and Maintaining a Semantically Adequate Lexicon Using Cyc....Pages 121-143
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
The Adjective “Vieux”: The Point of View of “Generative Lexicon”....Pages 147-166
Qualia Structure and the Compositional Interpretation of Compounds....Pages 167-187
Integrating Machine Readable Dictionary and Thesaurus for Conceptual Context Representation of Word Sense....Pages 189-225
Using Lexical Semantic Techniques to Classify Free-Responses....Pages 227-244
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Semantics via Conceptual and Lexical Relations....Pages 247-262
Opening the World with Active Words and Concept Triggers....Pages 263-282
Supply-Side and Demand-Side Lexical Semantics....Pages 283-298
Lexical Rules is Italicized....Pages 299-319
Back Matter....Pages 321-329
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