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.

Autorentext

Evelyne Viegas is a computational linguist and principal investigator at the Computing Research Laboratory of New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Inhalt
I. Lexical Rules and Underspecification.- Categorization of Types and Application of Lexical Rules.- The Lexical Semantics of English Count and Mass Nouns.- Lexical Rules and Lexical Organization: Productivity in the Lexicon.- Word Disambiguation by Lexical Ur.Lderspecification.- II. Breadth of Semantic Lexicons.- Acquisition of Semantic Lexicons: Using Word Sense Disambiguation to Improve Precision.- Lexical Rules for Deverbal Adjectives.- Building and Maintaining a Semantically Adequate Lexicon Using CYC.- III. Depth of Semantic Lexicons.- The Adjective Vieux: The Point of View of Generative Lexicon.- Qualia Structure and the Compositional Interpretation of Compounds.- Integrating Machine Readable Dictionary and Thesaurus for Conceptual Context Representation of Word Sense.- Using Lexical Semantic Techniques to Classify Free-Responses.- IV. Lexical Semantics and Pragmatics.- Semantics via Conceptual and Lexical Relations.- Opening the World with Active Words and Concept Triggers.- Supply-Side and Demand-Side Lexical Semantics.- Lexical Rules is Italicized.- Author Index.