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SIGLEX
1991
13 years 9 months ago
General Lexical Representation for an Effect Predicate
This paper argues that there is no reason to distinguish between lexical information and real-world information on the basis of the formalisms used; that both types of knowledge c...
Martha Stone Palmer
SIGLEX
1991
13 years 9 months ago
Representation of Semantic Knowledge with Term Subsumption Languages
One problem in the design of a lexicon for natural language processing is the representation of semantic knowledge. We examine the adequacy of knowledge representation formalisms ...
Gerrit Burkert, Peter Forster
SIGLEX
1991
13 years 9 months ago
Conventional Metaphor and the Lexicon
Metaphor and other forms of non-literal language are essential parts of language which have direct bearing on theories of lexical semantics. Neither narrow theories of lexical sem...
James H. Martin
SIGLEX
1991
13 years 9 months ago
Predictable Meaning Shift: Some Linguistic Properties of Lexical Implication Rules
Drawing on a growing database of systematic relationships between word-senses, the authors argue that a significant class of these represent Lexical Implication Rules, a set of fo...
Nicholas Ostler, B. T. S. Atkins