Title
Lexical rules: what are they?
Abstract
Horizontal redundancy is inherent to lexica consisting of descriptions of fully formed objects. This causes an unwelcome expansion of the lexical database and increases parsing time. To climinate it, direct relations between descriptions of fully formed objects are often defined. These are additional to the (Typed Multiple) Inheritance Network which already structures the lexicon. Many implementations of horizontal relations, however, fail to generate lexical entries on a needs-driven basis, so eliminate neither the problem of lexicon expansion nor that of inefficient parsing. Alternatively, we propose that lexical entries are descriptions of objects open to contextual specification of their properties on the basis of constraints defined within the type system. This guarantees that only those grammatical lexical entries are infered that are needed for efficient parsing. The proposal is extremely modest, making use of only basic inference power and expressivity.
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.3115/992628.992659
COLING
Keywords
Field
DocType
lexical rule,lexicon expansion,horizontal relation,inefficient parsing,lexical entry,grammatical lexical entry,lexical database,efficient parsing,horizontal redundancy,unwelcome expansion,needs-driven basis,multiple inheritance,type system
Programming language,Computer science,Inference,Lexical item,Lexical database,Implementation,Redundancy (engineering),Lexicon,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Parsing,Expressivity
Conference
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
C96-1
2
0.49
References 
Authors
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrew Bredenkamp1162.31
Stella Markantonatou2448.38
Louisa Sadler3408.17