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....by one such transformation, the category structure is radial, hence the term. However, other topologies are possible. Beyond transformations relating verbal senses of a word, there is a wider range of extensions which include changes in part of speech, and these also exhibit various regularities #Wilensky 1991#. For example, part of the meaning of pocket as a noun carries over to its interpretation as a verb. Presumably there is a rule to the e#ect that a noun referring to #X may also be used as a verb to denote some kind of action involving #X, subject to some restrictions. In this example, combined ....

Wilensky, Robert. 1991. Extending the lexicon by exploiting subregularities. Technical Report TR-91-618, University of California at Berkeley Computer Science Division.

....dictionary, etc. as further described in Section 10.2. 10.1. 1 Semi automatic lexical acquisition Approaches to solve the acquisition problem have created a range of tools that require various degrees of interactive support when new lexical entries are created, either from raw text material [Wilensky 1990, Zernik Dyer 1985, Zernik 1987] or from machine readable dictionaries [Boguraev et al. 1987] Chapter 10. 194 If the lexical acquisition system is designed with a specific application in mind, the task is some what simplified. This is the case in the TEAM system [Grosz et al. 1987] which was ....

Robert Wilensky. "Extending the Lexicon by Exploiting Subregularities ". In Proceedings of the 3rd Speech and Natural Language Workshop, pp. 365--370, Hidden Valley, Pennsylvania, 1990. DARPA, Morgan Kaufmann.

....by one such transformation, the category structure is radial, hence the term. However, other topologies are possible. Beyond transformations relating verbal senses of a word, there is a wider range of extensions which include changes in part of speech, and these also exhibit various regularities (Wilensky 1991). For example, part of the meaning of pocket as a noun carries over to its interpretation as a verb. Presumably there is a rule to the effect that a noun referring to X may also be used as a verb to denote some kind of action involving X, subject to some restrictions. In this example, combined ....

Wilensky, Robert. 1991. Extending the lexicon by exploiting subregularities. Technical Report TR-91-618, University of California at Berkeley Computer Science Division.

....are not only desirable they become an absolute necessity. Most approaches to this problem have been to construct a range of tools that require various degrees of interactive support when new lexical entries are created, either from raw text material (as in e.g. Grosz et al. 1987, Carter 1989, Wilensky 1990, Gamb ack 1992] and the early work by Zernik [Zernik Dyer 1985, Zernik 1987] or from machine readable dictionaries (see e.g. Boguraev et al. 1987, Calzolari Bindi 1990] These interactive tools of course greatly simplifies the lexicon acquisition task, but it is still desirable to go one ....

Robert Wilensky. "Extending the Lexicon by Exploiting Subregularities ". In Proceedings of the 3rd Speech and Natural Language Workshop, pp. 365--370, Hidden Valley, Pennsylvania, June 1990. DARPA, Morgan Kaufmann.

.... the ambiguity of words in context (e.g. Wilks 1975, Boguraev 1979, Hirst 1987, Alshawi 1992) Several theories of word meaning have addressed how pragmatic factors, like world knowledge, affect disambiguation (Wilks 1975, Hayes 1977, Schank and Abelson 1977, Hobbs et al. 1990, Charniak 1983, Wilensky 1983, 1990, Wilks et al. 1988, Guthrie et al. 1991, McRoy 1992) But this work hasn t attempted to tackle texts like (1) because one needs more than domain knowledge to explain them; one needs knowledge about rhetorical relations too. These theories present various techniques for modelling how domain ....

Wilensky, R. [1990] Extending the Lexicon by Exploiting Subregularities in Proceedings of COLING90, 407--412, Helsinki, Finland, July 1990.

.... on either hand coded background knowledge (e.g. Berwick [1983] Granger [1977] Hastings et al. 1991] Lytinen and Roberts [1989] Martin [1992] Selfridge [1986] or detailed hand coded heuristics that describe how and when to acquire new word definitions (e.g. Jacobs and Zernik [1988] Wilensky [1991]) Unfortunately, generating either world knowledge or acquisition heuristics is more difficult and time consuming than generating the lexical knowledge itself. In addition, it is very likely that the background knowledge and rules for acquisition will be domain or corpus dependent and will have ....

Wilensky, R. Extending the Lexicon by Exploiting Subregularities. Technical Report UCB/CSD 91/618, Computer Science Division (EECS), University of California, Berkeley, 1991.

....the Join compound of figure 8a is the scaffolding of the verb to give, as illustrated in Figure#2. Indeed, many verbs which are considered to be core related such as to give, to get, to receive are actually related 15 through a similar underlying scaffolding structure (see Martin, 1990 and Wilensky, 1991, for a discussion on the nature of core related words concepts) 3.4 Spatial Interactions: Combining Collocation Orientation We can metaphorically view mental and physical states as locations which may be reached, occupied and left behind. We talk of finding happiness, searching for ....

WILENSKY, R. 1991. Extending the Lexicon by Exploiting Subregularities, proceedings of the IJCAI'91 Workshop on Non-Literal Language.

....do learning systems use Recently, many people try to learn from corpora, among others, the four aspects of languages: 1. sub categorization information for individual verbs. 6, 9, 4] 2. semantic information for individual verbs. 3, 8] 3. syntactic rules. 10, 7, 2, 12] 4. word senses. [5] In the coming subsections, we will discuss different techniques people used in exploring these subjects. 2.1 Learning Syntactic Frames for Verbs Syntactic frames (or, frames) are defined as the ability of verbs to take arguments represented by infinitives, tensed clauses etc. in [9] The concept ....

....parse the sentences, an accuracy of 99.7 was obtained. Methods of generalizing the rule set to new sentences and retaining good rules were also reported. The retention process cuts down the rule size greatly, to 3,194 ones, with almost same accuracy. 2.4 Learning Extended Word Senses R. Wilensky [5] describes an effort to extended word senses. The focus of [5] is a MIDAS style system (MIDAS is a system that uses analogous reasoning to understand metaphors in UNIX domain) Two lexical extension processes are identified: core extension and similarity extension. e.g. understanding get a cold ....

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