Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases
This volume is a selection of papers presented at a workshop entitled Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases organized in Toulouse in August 1996. A predicate is a named relation that exists among one or more arguments. In na
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Text, Speech and Language Technology VOLUME 6
Series Editors Nancy Ide, Vassar College, New York Jean Veronis, Universite de Provence and CNRS, France Editorial Board Harald Baayen, Max Planck Institute for Psycho linguistics, The Netherlands Kenneth W. Church,AT& T Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA Judith Klavans, Columbia University, New York, USA David T. Barnard, University ofRegina, Canada Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Romania Joaquim Llisterri, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Stig Johansson, University of Oslo, Norway Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, France
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases Edited by
Patrick Saint-Dizier IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
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ISBN 978-90-481-5146-2 ISBN 978-94-017-2746-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-2746-4
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Table of Contents Foreword An Introduction to the Lexical Semantics of Predicative Forms: a Computational Perspective Patrick Saint-Dizier
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A Comparison of Different Lexical Semantics Approaches for Transfer Verbs with a Particular Emphasis on Buy/Sell Federica Busa, Daniele Dubois, Christiane Fellbaum, Patrick Saint-Dizier, Evelyne Viegas
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The Organization of Verbs and Verb Concepts in a Semantic Net Christiane Fellbaum
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Describing Verb Semantics in a Type Hierarchy: Disambiguation of Italian verbs Achim Stein
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Alternations and Verb Semantic Classes for French: analysis and class formation Patrick Saint-Dizier
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Semantics in Action Evelyne Viegas, Kavi Mahesh, Sergei Nirenburg and Stephen Beale
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Corpus-Based Argument Identification Using a Statistically Enriched Valency MRD Dimitrios Kokkinakis
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Capturing Motion Verb Generalizations in Synchronous Tree-Adjoining Grammar M. Palmer, J. Rosenzweig and W. Schuler
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Some Syntactic Consequences of Argument Structure Dimensions Charles Jones
257
Pragmatic Connectives As Predicates. The Case of Inferential Connectives Jacques Jayez, Corinne Rossari
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Interlingual Representations of Complex Predicates in a Multilin~al Approach: the Problem of Lexical Selection Maria Angeles Zareo
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The Semantics of Event-based Nominals Federica Busa
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Index
375
Foreword This volume is a selection of papers presented at a workshop entitled Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases organized in Toulouse in August 1996. A predicate is a named relation that exists among one or more arguments. In nat
