From submit to submitted via submission: on lexical rules in large-scale lexicon acquisition

Authors:
Evelyne Viegas;Boyan Onyshkevych;Victor Raskin;Sergei Nirenburg
Affiliations:
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Purdue University NLP Lab, W Lafayette, IN;New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Venue:
ACL '96 Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Year:
1996

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Abstract

This paper deals with the discovery, representation, and use of lexical rules (LRs) during large-scale semi-automatic computational lexicon acquisition. The analysis is based on a set of LRs implemented and tested on the basis of Spanish and English business- and finance-related corpora. We show that, though the use of LRs is justified, they do not come cost-free. Semi-automatic output checking is required, even with blocking and preemtion procedures built in. Nevertheless, large-scope LRs are justified because they facilitate the unavoidable process of large-scale semi-automatic lexical acquisition. We also argue that the place of LRs in the computational process is a complex issue.