1st Edition

Lexical Acquisition Exploiting On-line Resources To Build A Lexicon

Edited By Uri Zernik Copyright 1991
440 Pages
by Psychology Press

440 Pages
by Psychology Press

440 Pages
by Psychology Press

On-line information -- and free text in particular -- has emerged as a major, yet unexploited, resource available in raw form. Available, but not accessible. The lexicon provides the major key for enabling accessibility to on-line text. The expert contributors to this book explore the range of possibilities for the generation of extensive lexicons. In so doing, they investigate the use of existing... Read more
Contents: U. Zernik, Introduction. Part I:Lexical Senses. P. Jacobs, Making Sense of Lexical Acquisition. R. Krovetz, Lexical Acquisition and Information Retrieval. B. Slator, Using Context for Sense Preference. U. Zernik, Tagging Word Sense In Corpus. Part II:Lexical Statistics. K. Church, W. Gale, P. Hanks, D. Hindle, Using Statistics in Lexical Analysis. F. Smadja, Macrocoding the Lexicon with Co-Occurrence Knowledge. N. Calzolari, Lexical Databases and Textual Corpora: Perspectives of Integration for a Lexical Knowledge-Base. Part III:Lexical Representation. R. Beckwith, C. Fellbaum, D. Gross, G. Miller, WordNet: A Lexical Database Organized on Psycholinguistic Principles. B. Atkins, B. Levin, Admitting Impediments. B. Dorr, Conceptual Basis of the Lexicon in Machine Translation. M. Dyer, Lexical Acquisition Through Symbol Recirculation. Part IV:Lexical Semantics. P. Velardi, Acquiring a Semantic Lexicon for Natural Language Processing. L. Braden-Harder, W. Zadrozny, Lexicons for Broad Coverage Semantics. J. Martin, Representing and Acquiring Metaphor-Based Polysemy.

Biography

Uri Zernik

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