Proceedings of the Seventh Conference (AISB89) on Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour
Logic and information
Feature-based inheritance networks for computational lexicons
Inheritance, defaults and the lexicon
EACL '89 Proceedings of the fourth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Parsing Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar
ACL '85 Proceedings of the 23rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Structure-sharing in lexical representation
ACL '85 Proceedings of the 23rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 3
Inheritance in natural language processing
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on inheritance: I
An integrated parsing scheme for unification categorial grammar with object-oriented lexicon
SAC '94 Proceedings of the 1994 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Default representation in constraint-based frameworks
Computational Linguistics
A sign expansion approach to dynamic, multi-purpose lexicons
COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Automatic acquisition of adjectival subcategorization from corpora
ACL '05 Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
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Mechanisms for representing lexically the bulk of syntactic and semantic information for a language have been under active development, as is evident in the recent studies contained in this volume. Our study serves to highlight some of themost useful tools available for structured lexical representation, in particular (multiple) inheritance, default specification, and lexical rules. It then illustrates the value of these mechanisms in illuminating one corner of the lexicon involving an unusual kind of complementation among a group of adjectives exemplified by easy. The virtues of the structured lexicon are its succinctness and its tendency to highlight significant clusters of linguistic properties. From its succinctness follow two practical advantages, namely its ease of maintenance and modification. In order to suggest how important these may be practically, we extend the analysis of adjectival complementation in several directions. These further illustrate how the use of inheritance in lexical representation permits exact and explicit characterizations of phenomena in the language under study. We demonstrate how the use of the mechanisms employed in the analysis of easy enables us to give a unified account of related phenomena featuring nouns such as pleasure, and even the adverbs (adjectival specifiers) too and enough. Along the way we motivate some elaborations of the HPSG (head-driven phrase structure grammar) framework in which we couch our analysis, and offer several avenues for further study of this part of the English lexicon.