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Using dictionaries as a model for lexicon development perpetuates the notion that the level of “the word”, as structurally defined, is the right starting place for semantic representation. Difficulties stemming from that assumption are sufficiently serious that they may require a re-evaluation of common notions about lexical representation.
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Macpherson, M. (1992). Redefining the “level” of the “word”. In: Pustejovsky, J., Bergler, S. (eds) Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation. SIGLEX 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 627. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55801-2_33
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