Corpora: Book: Breadth and depth of semantic lexicons

[Jean Veronis]

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KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 10
Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis


BREADTH AND DEPTH OF SEMANTIC LEXICONS

Edited by
EVELYNE VIEGAS
Computing Research Laboratory
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA


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.

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6039-7
November 1999, 352 pp.
NLG 270.00 / USD 144.00 / GBP 89.00




CONTENTS


Preface                                                              vii

Contributors                                                          ix

Introduction                                                          xi
Evelyne Viegas


I. LEXICAL RULES AND UNDERSPECIFICATION

Categorization of Types and Application of Lexical Rules               3
Boyan A. Onyshkevych

The Lexical Semantics of English Count and Mass Nouns                 19
Brendan S. Gillon

Lexical Rules and Lexical Organization: Productivity in the Lexicon   39
Onur T. Sehitoglu and Cem Bozsahin

Word Disambiguation by Lexical Underspecification                     59
Antonio Sanfillippo


II. BREADTH OF SEMANTIC LEXICONS

Acquisition of Semantic Lexicons: Using Word Sense Disambiguation to 
Improve Precision                                                     79
Bonnie J. Dorr and Doug Jones

Lexical Rules for Deverbal Adjectives                                 99
Victor Raskin and Sergei Nirenburg

Building and Maintaining a Semantically Adequate Lexicon Using CYC   121
Kathy J. Burns and Anthony R. Davis


III. DEPTH OF SEMANTIC LEXICONS

The Adjective "Vieux": The Point of View of "Generative lexicon"     147
Pierrette Bouillon

Qualia Structures and the Compositional Interpretation of Compounds  167
Michael Johnston and Federica Busa

Integrating Machine Readable Dictionary and Thesaurus for Conceptual
Context Representation of Word Sense                                 189
J.N. Chen and J.S. Chang

Using Lexical Semantic Techniques to Classify Free-Responses         227
Jill Burstein, Susanne Wolff and Chi Lu


IV. LEXICAL SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS

Semantics via Conceptual and Lexical Relations                       247
Christiane Fellbaum

Opening the World with Active Words and Concept Triggers             263
Evelyne Viegas

Supply-Side and Demand-Side Lexical Semantics                        283
Sergei Nirenburg and Victor Raskin

Lexical Rules is Italicized                                          299
Stephen Helmreich and David Farwell


Subject Index                                                        321

Author Index                                                         325

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PREVIOUS VOLUMES


Volume 1:  Recent Advances in Parsing Technology
           Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita (Eds.)
           Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996

Volume 2:  Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing
           Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft (Eds.)
           Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997

Volume 3:  An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis
           Thierry Dutoit
           Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 1997 

Volume 4:  Exploring textual data
           Ludovic Lebart, André Salem and Lisette Berry
           Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997

Volume 5:  Time Map Phonology:
           Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech
           Recognition
           Julie Carson-Berndsen
           Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, 1997

Volume 6:  Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in
           Lexical Knowledge Bases
           Patrick Saint-Dizier (Ed.)
           Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5499-0, December 1998

Volume 7:  Natural Language Information Retrieval
           Tomek Strzalkowski (Ed.)
           Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999

Volume 8:  Techniques in Speech Acoustics
           Jonathan Harrington, Steve Cassidy
           Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0, July 1999

Volume 9:  Syntactic Wordclass Tagging
           Hans van Halteren (Ed.)
           Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1, August 1999

Volume 11: Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora
           Susan Armstrong, Kenneth Ward Church, Pierre Isabelle,
           Sandra Manzi, Evelyne Tzoukermann, David Yarowsky (Eds.)
           Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6055-9, November 1999


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