This paper focuses on the merits of Dirk Geeraerts in field (diachronic) lexical semantics. The article highlights Geeraerts’ work prototypes and metaphor. Some most illuminating case-studies are reviewed a number characteristic features this part identified presented.

After a quick overview of the field of study known as “Lexical Semantics”, where we advocate the need of accessing additional information besides syntax and Montaguestyle semantics at the lexical level in order to complete the full analysis of an utterance, we summarize the current formulations of a well-known theory of that field. We then propose and justify our own model of the Generative Lex...

In this position paper, I discuss some linguistic problems that computational work on lexical semantics has attempted to address in the past and the implications for alternative models which incorporate distributional information. I concentrate in particular on phenomena involving count/mass distinctions, where older approaches attempted to use lexical semantics in their models of syntax. I out...

We present the lexical-semantic net for German "GermaNet" which integrates conceptual ontological information with lexical semantics, within and across word classes. It is compatible with the Princeton WordNet but integrates principlebased modifications on the constructional and organizational level as well as on the level of lexical and conceptual relations. GermaNet includes a new treatment o...

We describe a compiler which translates a set of hpsg lexical rules and their interaction into deenite relations used to constrain lexical entries. The compiler ensures automatic transfer of properties unchanged by a lexical rule. Thus an operational semantics for the full lexical rule mechanism as used in HPSG linguistics is provided. Program transformation techniques are used to advance the r...

As the role of learning in complex intelligent systems has become more prominent in Artificial Intelligence, researchers have become more interested in the topic of lexical learning. Their concerns have included: how to recognize new words in speech recognition tasks (Bazzi & Glass 2000), how to extract lexical semantics from corpora (Boguraev & Pustejovsky 1996), how to link lexical semantics ...

This paper queries which aspects of lexical semantics can reasonably be expected to be modelled by corpus-based theories such as distributional semantics or techniques such as ontology extraction. We argue that a full lexical semantics theory must take into account the extensional potential of words. We investigate to which extent corpora provide the necessary data to model this information and...

In the recent years, different but similar approaches integrated lexical semantics within compositional semantics. These approaches all make use of type theory at least to compose the meanings. We present here with some details one of these approaches, ours, which makes use of second order lambda calculus as a type theory for meaning assembly and of multi sorted higher order predicate logic for...