Lexical Acquisition: Exploiting On-line Resources To Build A Lexicon

by Uri Zernik (Editor)

Overview

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 on-line dictionaries and thesauri, and explain how lexicons can be acquired from the corpus — the text under investigation — itself. Leading researchers in four related fields offer the latest investigations: computational linguists cover the natural language processing aspect; statisticians point out the issues involved in the use of massive data; experts discuss the limitations of current technology; and lexicographers share their experience in the design of the traditional dictionaries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780805811278
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/01/1991
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

"The effort has succeeded....This book certainly provides a useful overview of the field, and there are some valuable pointers to the way ahead."
—Computational Lingusitics

"...a very readable collection of papers....the problems facing researchers in the field of natural language processing are exposed with exceptional clarity....a useful introduction to a rapidly growing field..."
—Linguistics

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