This thesis is an investigation of phenomena at the interface between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, with the aim of arguing for a view of semantic interpretation as lexicallydriven yet contextually dependent. I examine regular, generative processes which operate over the lexicon to induce verbal sense shifts, and discuss the interaction of these processes with the linguistic or discourse c...

Analyzing the semantic Representations of 5000 Chinese sentences and describing a new sentence analysis method that evaluates semantic preference knowledge, we create a model of semantic representation analysis based on the correspondence between lexical meanings and conceptual structures, and relations that underlie those lexical meanings. We also propose a semantical argument-head relation th...

Recently, two operable WSDL retrieval approaches, bipartite-graph matching and KbSM, were developed for Web service discovery. But their models and similarity metrics of WSDL ignore some term or semantic feature, and involve formal method problem of representation or difficulty of parameter verification. SLVM approaches depend on statistical term measures to implement XML document representatio...

The paper analyses the application of DATR language for lexical knowledge presentation for interpreting Bulgarian inflectional morphology. It discuss the semantic network of the feature of definiteness in Bulgarian language and compares the lexical knowledge representation for the different part-of-speech with respect to the defined grammar rules, the sound alternations, the related formal pres...

A lexical function represents a type of relation that exists between lexical units (words or expressions) in any language. For example, the antonymy is a type of relat ion that is represented by the lexical function Anti: Anti(big) = small. Those relations include both paradigmatic relations, i.e. vertical relations, such as synonymy, antonymy and meronymy and syntagmatic relat ions, i.e. horiz...