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 cover
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Text, Speech and Language Technology VOLUME 10
Series Editors Nancy Ide, Vassar College, New York Jean Veronis, Universite de Provence and CNRS, France
Editorial Board Harald Baayen, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands Kenneth W. Church, AT & T Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA Judith Klavans, Columbia University, New York, USA David T. Barnard, University of Regina, Canada Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Romania Joaquim Llisterri, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Stig Johansson, University of Oslo, Norway Joseph Mariani, LlMSI-CNRS, France
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons Edited by
Evelyne Viegas Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
A c.1.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-90-481-5347-3 ISBN 978-94-017-0952-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-0952-1
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CONTENTS
Preface
Vll
Contributors
ix
Introduction Evelyne Viegas
xi
I. LEXICAL RULES AND UNDERSPECIFICATION
Categorization of Types and Application of Lexical Rules Boyan A. Onyshkevych
3
The Lexical Semantics of English Count and Mass Nouns Brendan S. Gillon
19
Lexical Rules and Lexical Organization: Productivity in the Lexicon Onur T. Sehitoglu and Cem Bozsahin
39
Word Disambiguation by Lexical Underspecification Antonio Sanfillippo
59
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 Victor Raskin and Sergei Nirenburg
99
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" Pierrette Bouillon
147
Qualia Structure 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 Jill Burstein, Susanne Wolff and Chi Lu
227
IV. LEXICAL SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS Semantics via Conceptual and Lexical Relations Christiane Fellbaum
247
Opening the World with Active Words and Concept Triggers Evelyne Viegas
263
Supply-Side and Demand-Side Lexical Semantics Sergei Nirenburg and Victor Raskin
283
Lexical Rule
