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Date: 16-Nov-2006
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Inheritance, Defaults and the Lexicon: Briscoe, Copestake, de
Paiva (Eds) 

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Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 20:51:14
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Inheritance, Defaults and the Lexicon: Briscoe, Copestake, de Paiva (Eds) 

Title: Inheritance, Defaults and the Lexicon 
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language Processing  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org

Editor: Ted Briscoe
Editor: Ann Copestake
Editor: Valeria de Paiva

Paperback: ISBN: 0521028051 Pages: 306 Price: U.S. $ 48.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0521028051 Pages: 306 Price: U.K. £ 26.99

Abstract:

The lexicon is now a major focus of research in computational linguistics
and natural language processing (NLP), as more linguistic theories
concentrate on the lexicon and as the acquisition of an adequate vocabulary
has become the chief bottleneck in developing practical NLP systems. This
collection describes techniques of lexical representation within a
unification-based framework and their linguistic application, concentrating
on the highly topical issue of structuring the lexicon using inheritance
and defaults. Topics covered include typed feature structures, default
unification, lexical rules, multiple inheritance and non-monotonic
reasoning. The contributions describe both theoretical  results and
implemented languages and systems, including DATR, the Stuttgart TFS and
ISSCO's ELU. This book arose out of a workshop on default inheritance in
the lexicon organized as a part of the Esprit ACQUILEX project on
computational lexicography. Besides the contributed papers mentioned above,
it contains a detailed description of the ACQUILEX lexical knowledge base
(LKB) system and its use in the representation of lexicons extracted
semi-automatically from machine-readable dictionaries. 

'A very valuable description of the current work in this field ... should be
available in all centres of artificial intelligence.'
Artificial Intelligence Review 

Contributors; 
1. Introduction Ted Briscoe; 
2. Skeptical and credulous default unification with applications to
templates and inheritance Bob Carpenter; 
3. Prioritised multiple inheritance in DATR Roger Evans, Gerald Gazdar and
Lionel Moser; 
4. Some reflections on the conversion of the TIC lexicon into DATR Lynne J.
Cahill; 
5. Norms or inference tickets? a frontal collision between intuitions
Michael Morreau; 
6. Issues in the design of a language for representing linguistic
information based on inheritance and feature structures Remi Zajac; 
7. Feature-based inheritance networks for computational lexicons
Hans-Ulrich Krieger and John Nerbonne; 
8. A practical approach to multiple default inheritance for
unification-based lexicons Graham Russell, Afzal Ballim, John Carroll and
Susan Warwick-Armstrong; 
9. The ACQUILEX LKB: an introduction Ann Copestake, Antonio Sanfilippo, Ted
Briscoe and Valeria de Paiva; 
10. Types and constraints in the LKB Valeria de Paiva; 
11. LKB encoding of lexical knowledge Antonio Sanfilippo; 
12. Defaults in lexical representation Ann Copestake; 
13. Untangling definition structure into knowledge representation Piek
Vossen and Ann Copestake; 
Appendices; 
References; 
Indexes. 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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