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Title: Lexical Functions in Lexicography and Natural Language Processing

Editor: Leo Wanner

Series: Studies in Language Companion Series, 31

Publisher: John Benjamins, Amsterdam; April 1996

Level: Specialized Editorial

Fields: Lexicography - Computational linguistics / Natural language processing

Keywords: lexical function, ideophone, paraphrasing

ISBN: 1556193831, English, Hardcover, 0 pages

Publisher's Abstract:

Lexical Functions in Lexicography and Natural Language Processing is entirely devoted to the topic of Lexical Functions, which have been introduced in the framework of the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) as a means for describing restricted lexical co-occurrence and derivational relations. It provides detailed background information, comparative studies of other known proposals for the representation of relations covered by Lexical Functions, as well as a selection of most important works done on and with Lexical Functions in lexicography and computational linguistics. This volume provides excellent course material while it also reports on the state-of-the-art in the field.
The volume contains eleven articles: Introduction (L. Wanner); Lexical Function5 s: A ffbTool for the Description of Lexical Relations in a Lexicon (I. Mel’cuk); Lexical Functions Across Languages (J. Grimes); Using Lexical Functions for the Extraction of Collocations from Dictionaries and Corpora (U. Heid); A Classification and Description of Lexical Functions for the Analysis of their Combinations (M. Alonso Ramos and A. Tutin); A Case of Aspectual Polysemy, with Implications for Lexical Functions (A. Nakhimovsky); On Dictionary Entries for Support Verbs: The Cases of Russian VESTI, PROVODIT’ and PROIZVODIT’ (T. Reuther); Lexical Functions and Lexical Inheritance for Emotion Lexemes in German (I. Mel’cuk and L. Wanner); Some Procedural Problems in the Implementation of Lexical Functions for Text Generation (I. Ordanskaja, M. Kim, and A. Polguere); Generating Cohesive Text Using Lexical Functions (W. Lee and M. Evens); RUSLO: An Automatic System for Derivation in Russian (N. Percova).

Table of Contents

IntroductionLeo Wanner
Lexical Functions: A Tool for the Description of Lexical Relations in a LexiconIgor A. Mel’cuk
Lexical Functions Across LanguagesJoseph E. Grimes
Using Lexical Functions for the Extraction of Collocations from Dictionaries and CorporaUlrich Heid
A Classification and Description of Lexical Functions for the Analysis of their CombinationsMargarita Alonso Ramos and Agnčs Tutin
A Case of Aspectual Polysemy, with Implications for Lexical FunctionsAlexander Nakhimovsky
On Dictionary Entries for Support Verbs: The Cases of Russian VESTI, PROVODIT2 and PROIZVODIT2Tilmann Reuther
Lexical Functions and Lexical Inheritance for Emotion Lexemes in GermanIgor A. Mel’ uk and Leo Wanner
Some Procedural Problems in the Implementation of Lexical Functions for Text GenerationLidija Iordanskaja , Myung-Hee Kim and Alain Polgučre
Generating Cohesive Text Using Lexical FunctionsWoongjae Lee and Martha W. Evens
ruslo : An Automatic System for Derivation in RussianNatal'ja Percova

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Wanner, Leo. 1996. Lexical Functions in Lexicography and Natural Language Processing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

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