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SIGLEX
1991
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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
SIGLEX
1991
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Lexicon, Ontology, and Text Meaning
A computationally relevant theory of lexical semantics must take into consideration both the form and the content of three different static knowledge sources -- the lexicon, the o...
Boyan A. Onyshkevych, Sergei Nirenburg
SIGLEX
1991
15 years 8 months ago
Syntax-Driven and Ontology-Driven Lexical Semantics
Sergei Nirenburg, Lori S. Levin
SIGLEX
1991
15 years 8 months ago
Presuppositions and Default Reasoning: A Study in Lexical Pragmatics
Explaining how the meaning of words relate to the meaning of the utterance in which they are used is of utmost importance. The most common approaches view the meaning of an uttera...
Robert E. Mercer