Concept-Oriented Parsing Of Definitions

0. Introduction Computational lexicology/ lexicography currently favours issues related to the ~ , the reoresentation and the application of iexical knowledge functioning within a NLP-environment. Within the first domain, that of acquisition, one finds e.g. such topics as the extraction of information from corpora and machine readable dictionaries (MRD's). This paper which is the result of a project in which, next to the author, also M.Reedijk, E.ten Pas and L.Willekens participated -, falls within this first domain as it will explicitly deal with the extraction of (lexicai) knowledge from (dictionary) definitions. However, it will be evident that acquisition without a representational framework does not make (much) sense. Furthermore we will also indicate how to use the knowledge obtained.