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This book presents, by means of a number of articles, a survey and a set of projects in computational lexical semantics. The most crucial aspects of ongoing research on predicates are presented: verb semantic classifications, relations between syntax and semantics, Wordnet for Verbs, multilinguism, lexical knowledge bases and lexical acquisition, the generative lexicon. Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases is designed for professors, researchers and graduate students in the area of language processing and semantics.

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Author:   P. Saint-Dizier
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1999
Volume:   6
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.599kg
ISBN:  

9789048151462

ISBN 10:   9048151465
Pages:   379
Publication Date:   06 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

An Introduction to the Lexical Semantics of Predicative Forms: a Computational Perspective.- A Comparison of Different Lexical Semantics Approaches for Transfer Verbs with a Particular Emphasis on Buy/Sell.- The Organization of Verbs and Verb Concepts in a Semantic Net.- Describing Verb Semantics in a Type Hierarchy: Disambiguation of Italian verbs.- Alternations and Verb Semantic Classes for French: analysis and class formation.- Semantics in Action.- Corpus-Based Argument Identification Using a Statistically Enriched Valency MRD.- Capturing Motion Verb Generalizations in Synchronous Tree-Adjoining Grammar.- Some Syntactic Consequences of Argument Structure Dimensions.- Pragmatic Connectives As Predicates. The Case of Inferential Connectives.- Interlingual Representations of Complex Predicates in a Multilinsual Approach: the Problem of Lexical Selection.- The Semantics of Event-based Nominals.

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'...it does, nonetheless, present a useful and eclectic review of European and US work in computational lexical semantics and is particularly informative for those working at the lexical semanticssyntax interface.' Linguistics, Volume 37 (2001)

'...it does, nonetheless, present a useful and eclectic review of European and US work in computational lexical semantics and is particularly informative for those working at the lexical semanticssyntax interface.' Linguistics, Volume 37 (2001)

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