Semantic Lexicon

This paper addresses the problem of developing a large semantic lexicon for natural language processing. The increas~g availability of machine readable documents offers an opportunity to the field of lexieal …...

Semantic knowledge can be a great asset to natural language processing systems, but it is usually hand-coded for each applica- tion. Although some semantic information is available in general-purpose knowledge …...

AbstractThis paper describes a Web service for accessing WordNet-type semantic lexicons. The central idea behind the service design is: given a query, the primary functionality of lexicon access is to …...

We present a higher-order inference sys- tem based on a formal compositional semantics and the wide-coverage CCG parser. We develop an improved method to bridge between the parser and seman- …...