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The computational lexical semantics of syntagmatic relations

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Evelyne Viegas,

Sergei NirenburgAuthors Info & Claims

ACL '98/COLING '98: Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Volume 2

Pages 1328 - 1332

https://doi.org/10.3115/980691.980785

Published: 10 August 1998 Publication History

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In this paper, we address the issue of syntagmatic expressions from a computational lexical semantic perspective. From a representational viewpoint, we argue for a hybrid approach combining linguistic and conceptual paradigms, in order to account for the continuum we find in natural languages from free combining words to frozen expressions. In particular, we focus on the place of lexical and semantic restricted co-occurrences. From a processing viewpoint, we show how to generate/analyze syntagmatic expressions by using an efficient constraintbased processor, well fitted for a knowledge-driven approach.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3115/1117769.1117787

The computational lexical semantics of syntagmatic relations

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ACL '98/COLING '98: Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Volume 2

August 1998

768 pages

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Christian Boitet
Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd., Oxford, United Kingdom

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Jin WPalmer MMarcus MJoshi AXia F(2000)Text meaning representation for ChineseProceedings of the second workshop on Chinese language processing: held in conjunction with the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1210.3115/1117769.1117787(109-115)Online publication date: 8-Oct-2000
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3115/1117769.1117787

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