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This introduction presents the main paradigms considered in the papers of this volume: notions of argument structure and thematic roles, the notion of a network of word-senses, as embodied in WordNet, approaches for constructing verb semantic classes, the Lexical Conceptual Structure and the Generative Lexicon.
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Saint-Dizier, P. (1999). An Introduction to the Lexical Semantics of Predicative Forms. In: Saint-Dizier, P. (eds) Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2746-4_1
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