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This paper argues that it is impossible to separate lexical and encyclopedic knowledge. It describes an attempt to build a large lexical database that contains the range of information needed to make a parser, a text generator, or an information retrieval system interpret and use words and phrases correctly.
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Evens, M. et al. (1992). For the lexicon that has everything. 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_37
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