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The lexicon is now a major focus of research in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP), as more linguistic theories concentrate on the lexicon and as the acquisition of an adequate vocabulary has become the chief bottleneck in developing practical NLP systems. This collection describes techniques of lexical representation within a unification-based framework and their linguistic application, concentrating on the highly topical issue of structuring the lexicon using inheritance and defaults. Topics covered include typed feature structures, default unification, lexical rules, multiple inheritance and non-monotonic reasoning. The contributions describe both theoretical results and implemented languages and systems, including DATR, the Stuttgart TFS and ISSCO's ELU. This book arose out of a workshop on default inheritance in the lexicon organized as a part of the Esprit ACQUILEX project on computational lexicography. Besides the contributed papers mentioned above, it contains a detailed description of the ACQUILEX lexical knowledge base (LKB) system and its use in the representation of lexicons extracted semi-automatically from machine-readable dictionaries.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Lexicography

• Full title: Inheritance, Defaults and the Lexicon
• Author: Ted BriscoeAnn CopestakeValeria de Paiva
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308
• EAN: 9780521028059
• ISBN: 0521028051
• ID: 02018779
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 467 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. November 2006

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