Lexical semantics and knowledge representation. 1st SIGLEX Workshop, Berkeley, CA, USA, June 17, 1991. Proceedings (Q1202196)

[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] This is the proceedings of the First SIGLEX Workshop on Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation, University of California, Berkeley, June 1991. The papers investigate the close relationship between computational lexical semantics and knowledge representation techniques and languages such as common sense knowledge, inheritance, default reasoning, collocational relations, domain knowledge, etc. On different levels of abstraction for lexical knowledge, the general conclusion is that the major problems in natural language processing (parsing, semantic analysis, generation, machine translation, text analysis) can not be treated without a coherent treatment of lexical semantics. Finally to mention that in this introductory chapter, \textit{J. Pustejovsky} shortly describes the contents of the 21 enclosed highest quality contributions, making pertinent observations and enlightening associations.