Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Lexical Rules and Underspecification

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Categorization of Types and Application of Lexical Rules

      • Boyan A. Onyshkevych

      Pages 3-17

   3. The Lexical Semantics of English Count and Mass Nouns

      • Brendan S. Gillon

      Pages 19-37

   4. Lexical Rules and Lexical Organization: Productivity in the Lexicon

      • Onur T. Sehitoglu, Cem Bozsahin

      Pages 39-57

   5. Word Disambiguation by Lexical Underspecification

      • Antonio Sanfilippo

      Pages 59-76

3. Breadth of Semantic Lexicons

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. Acquisition of Semantic Lexicons

      • Bonnie J. Dorr, Doug Jones

      Pages 79-97

   3. Lexical Rules for Deverbal Adjectives

      • Victor Raskin, Sergei Nirenburg

      Pages 99-119

   4. Building and Maintaining a Semantically Adequate Lexicon Using Cyc

      • Kathy J. Burns, Anthony R. Davis

      Pages 121-143

4. Depth of Semantic Lexicons

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. The Adjective “Vieux”: The Point of View of “Generative Lexicon”

      • Pierrette Bouillon

      Pages 147-166

   3. Qualia Structure and the Compositional Interpretation of Compounds

      • Michael Johnston, Federica Busa

      Pages 167-187

   4. Integrating Machine Readable Dictionary and Thesaurus for Conceptual Context Representation of Word Sense

      • Jen Nan Chen, Jason S. Chang

      Pages 189-225

   5. Using Lexical Semantic Techniques to Classify Free-Responses

      • Jill Burstein, Susanne Wolff, Chi Lu

      Pages 227-244

5. Lexical Semantics and Pragmatics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245

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   2. Semantics via Conceptual and Lexical Relations

      • Christiane Fellbaum

      Pages 247-262

   3. Opening the World with Active Words and Concept Triggers

      • Evelyne Viegas

      Pages 263-282

   4. Supply-Side and Demand-Side Lexical Semantics

      • Sergei Nirenburg, Victor Raskin

      Pages 283-298

   5. Lexical Rules is Italicized

      • Stephen C. Helmreich, David L. Farwell

      Pages 299-319

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.

• artificial intelligence
• intelligence
• knowledge representation
• language
• linguistics
• psycholinguistics
• semantic
• semantics

• Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA

  Evelyne Viegas

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

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