Overview

The purpose of the research in this volume is to design a machine-tractable dictionary from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE). A machine-tractable dictionary is intended to be a basic facility for a whole spectrum of natural language processing tasks. The research adopts a compositional-reduction approach to obtain a set of empirically derived definitional primitives and use them to construct formalized sense entries in a nested predicate form where the predicates are a set of definitional primitives called ""seed senses"". Over 40 years of continuous effort at natural language processing have led the research community in this area to the realization that very large machine tractable dictionaries are essential to success in any further computational attempts at natural language. The emergence of machine-readable data, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, and documents of a general, unrestricted nature as by-products of modern typesetting technology, facilitates the derivation of very large lexicons and knowledge bases at low costs. An open research question in computation lexicography in particular and natural language processing in general involves the machine tractability of these lexicons. A lexicon is machine tractable only when it assists copmuter understanding of natural language text as well as the acquisition of new lexical and world knowledge by the computer.

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Author:   Cheng-ming Guo
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.586kg
ISBN:  

9780893918538

ISBN 10:   0893918539
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   01 May 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contributors xi Preface xiii Introduction 1 Robert A. Amsler Part I: Forum on the Design and Construction of MTDs 15 1 Prelude 17 Cheng-ming Guo 2 Polysemy and Word Meaning 19 James Pustejovsky 3 Machine Tractable Dictionaries and Open Sublanguages 25 Lynette Hirschman 4 Lexical Knowledge Required for Natural Language Processing 31 Arthur Cater 5 Sources for Machine Tractable Dictionaries 55 Nicoletta Calzolari 6 Neutral Dictionaries 59 Pim van der Eijk 7 Can a Neutral Dictionary Be Useful? 65 Allan Ramsay 8 Machine-Tractable Dictionaries in the 21st Century 75 Brian Slator 9 Ideal MRDs: The Perspective from Our Experience 79 J. Terry Nutter 10 Some Matters Examined in Driving MTD Development 85 Toshia Yokoi 11 A Lexicon Server Using Lexical Relations for Information Retrieval 89 Edward A. Fox, J. Terry Nutter, and Martha W. Evens 12 Some Dictionary Information for Machine Translation 93 Makoto Nagao 13 Aspects of a Machine Tractable Dictionary for Knowledge-Based Machine Translation 103 Sergei Nirenberg 14 A Connectionist Machine-Tractable Dictionary: The Very Idea 113 Noel E. Sharkey, Paul A. Day, and Amanda J. C. Sharkey 15 The Dynamic Database 131 B.T.S. Atkins Part II: Constructing a MTD from LDOCE 145 Cheng-ming Guo 16 Introduction 147 17 Previous Work 159 18 Constructing a MTD from LDOCE 189 19 The Bootstrapping Process 209 20 Summary and Evaluation 217 21 Conclusion 223 References 227 Bibliography 235 Glossary 255 Appendix A: Sample Definition Text of Mini-LDOCE 257 Author Index 281 Subject Index 285   

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