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Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation: First SIGLEX Workshop, Berkeley, CA, USA, June 17, 1991. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 627) - Softcover

 
9783540558019: Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation: First SIGLEX Workshop, Berkeley, CA, USA, June 17, 1991. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 627)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3540558012 ISBN 13: 9783540558019
Publisher: Springer, 1992

Synopsis

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.

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Publisher
Springer
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3540558012
ISBN 13 
9783540558019
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
400
Editor
Pustejovsky James, Bergler Sabine