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VOLUME 10


Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons


Edited by

Evelyne Viegas
Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University
USA


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.


Contents:

Preface.
Contributors.
Introduction: E. Viegas.
I. Lexical Rules and Underspecification.
II. Breadth of Semantic Lexicons.
III. Depth of Semantic Lexicons.
IV. Lexical Semantics and Pragmatics.

Subject Index.
Author Index.


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Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons
Edited by Evelyne Viegas

TEXT, SPEECH, AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Series, Volume 10
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht

Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6039-7
November 1999, 352 pp.

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