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A Concise Review of the Answers to Fundamental Issues of Lexical Semantics

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Chinese Lexical Semantics (CLSW 2013)

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There is relationship of inheritance and development between different schools of lexical semantics, which have their own emphases on dissimilar language phenomena and try to solve distinct problems of lexical semantics. The understanding of this relationship helps make explicit the drawbacks of existent study and future tendency, which is conducive to the development of natural language processing.

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  1. College of Chinese Language and Literature, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Shengjian Ni

  2. Computer School, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Donghong Ji

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  1. Applied Language Research Institute, Beijing Language and Culture University, No. 15 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, 100083, Beijing, China

    Pengyuan Liu

  2. School of Foreign Languages, Peking University, No. 5, Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District, 100871, Beijing, China

    Qi Su

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Ni, S., Ji, D. (2013). A Concise Review of the Answers to Fundamental Issues of Lexical Semantics. In: Liu, P., Su, Q. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8229. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45185-0_33

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