Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation
First SIGLEX Workshop, Berkeley, CA, USA, June 17, 1991. Proceedings
Published on 10. September 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 388 pages
978-3-540-55801-9 (ISBN)
Description
Recent work on formal methods in computational lexical
semantics has had theeffect of bringing many linguistic
formalisms much closer to the knowledge representation
languages used in artificial intelligence. Formalisms are
now emerging which may be more expressive and formally
better understood than many knowledge representation
languages. The interests of computational linguists now
extend to include such domains as commonsense knowledge,
inheritance, default reasoning, collocational relations, and
even domain knowledge. With such an extension of the normal
purview of "linguistic" knowledge, one may question whether
there is any logical justification for distinguishing
between lexical semantics and commonsense reasoning.
This volume explores the question from several
methodologicaland theoretical perspectives. What emerges is
a clear consensus that the notion of the lexicon and lexical
knowledge assumed in earlier linguistic research is grossly
inadequate and fails to address the deeper semantic issues
required for natural language analysis.
More details
Series
Edition
1992 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XII, 388 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
604 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-55801-9 (9783540558019)
DOI
10.1007/3-540-55801-2
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Syntax-driven and ontology-driven lexical semantics.- Knowledge management for terminology-intensive applications: Needs and tools.- Logical structures in the lexicon.- Conventional metaphor and the lexicon.- Representation of semantic knowledge with term subsumption languages.- Predictable meaning shift: Some linguistic properties of Lexical Implication Rules.- Lexical operations in a unification-based framework.- Lexical structures for linguistic inference.- In so many words: Knowledge as a lexical phenomenon.- Redefining the "level" of the "word".- Lexical and world knowledge: Theoretical and applied viewpoints.- Aspectual requirements of temporal connectives: Evidence for a two-level approach to semantics.- A model for the interaction of lexical and non-lexical knowledge in the determination of word meaning.- For the lexicon that has everything.- Acquiring and representing semantic information in a lexical knowledge base.- General lexical representation for an effect predicate.- The autonomy of shallow lexical knowledge.- A two-level knowledge representation for machine translation: Lexical semantics and tense/aspect.- Lexicon, ontology, and text meaning.- Development of the concept dictionary - Implementation of lexical knowledge.- Presuppositions and default reasoning: A study in lexical pragmatics.