This paper proposes a framework for representing cross-lingual/interlingual lexical semantic correspondences that are expected to be recovered through a series of on-demand/on-the-fly invocations of a lexical semantic matching process. One of the central notions of the proposed framework is a pseudo synset, which is introduced to represent a cross-lingual/multilingual lexical concept, jointly d...

We have constructed the IPA Lexicon of Basic Japanese Nouns (IPAL-BN), which has a hierarchical structure based on the syntactic and semantic properties of no,ms. In our lexicon, each lexical entry consists of subentries, and subentries have semantic property information. Among these elements, we focus here on the subentry description. Conventional Japanese dictionaries only enmnerate various u...

We have developed a prototype system for syntactic parsing of corpus text based on a wide-coverage unification-based grammar of English and domain-independent statistical techniques for selecting the most plausible parses from the typically large number licensed by the grammar. Although the results from initial experiments are promising, the system is ‘brittle’, relying particularly on the corr...

This paper argues that it is impossible to separate lexical and encyclopedic knowledge and describes an attempt to build a large lexical database that contains the range of information needed to make a parser or a text generation system interpret and use words and phrases correctly. 1 I n t r o d u c t i o n Any natural language processing system needs both knowledge about words and knowledge a...

We describe an approach taken for automatically associating entries from an on-line encyclopedia with concepts in an ontology or a lexical semantic network. It has been tested with the Simple English Wikipedia and WordNet, although it can be used with other resources. The accuracy in disambiguating the sense of the encyclopedia entries reaches 91.11% (83.89% for polysemous words). It will be ap...

This document investigates the possibility of extracting lexical information automatically from the pages of a printed dictionary of Maltese. An experiment was carried out on a small sample of dictionary entries using hand-crafted rules to parse the entries. Although the results obtained were quite promising, a major problem turned out to errors introduced by OCR and the inconsistent style adop...

The JMdict/EDICT Japanese-English Dictionary is a freely-available dictionary distributed in XML (JMdict)and text (EDICT) formats. It is widely used as a source of lexical material in dictionary systems and text-processing projects. We propose two refinements to make the dictionary more computationally tractable: marking entries where the English is not a translation equivalent and expanding co...

The JMdict/EDICT Japanese-English Dictionary is a freely-available dictionary distributed in XML (JMdict)and text (EDICT) formats. It is widely used as a source of lexical material in dictionary systems and text-processing projects. We propose two refinements to make the dictionary more computationally tractable: marking entries where the English is not a translation equivalent and expanding co...

This work belongs to a family of research efforts, called microtheories and aimed at describing the static meaning of all lexical categories in several languages in the framework of the MikroKosmos project on computational semantics. The latter also involves other static microtheories describing world knowledge and syntax-semantics mapping as well as dynamic microtheories connected with the act...

In this paper we outline a lexical organization for Turkish that makes use of lexical rules for innections, derivations, and lexical category changes to control the proliferation of lexical entries. Lexical rules handle changes in grammatical roles, enforce type constraints, and control the mapping of subcategorization frames in valency-changing operations. A lexical inheritance hierarchy facil...