scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1292570
The paper presents a concise description of a computational lexical semantics, focusing on the treatment of events as their semantic dynamics. The authors analyze the semantic information that should be encoded in a lexicon entry to support the twin tasks of constructing Text Meaning Representations (TMRs) for input texts and generating off TMRs. The paper concentrates on ``knowledge in action, discussing the type of information that should be encoded in the knowledge sources, mechanisms of enhancing the coverage of knowledge sources, and the interplay between dynamic knowledge of entries and its textual context at processing time. The proposed approach to computational semantics is illustrated on Mikrokosmos, a knowledge-based machine translation system under development. The paper is organized as follows: Section 2 gives an example of how to use lexical-semantic knowledge to produce the TMR of a text. Section 3 addresses representational issues with respect to the lexicon, viz. the lexical semantic information that should be included in the events in order to support multilinguistic applications. Section 4 introduces the methodology of acquisition within a multilingual environment. In particular, the paper shows that performing acquisition in a ``situated environment (i.e. geared at particular tasks), and allowing the static knowledge sources to be changed dynamically lead to an improved processing of the meaning in context. The final Section 5 compares the proposed approach to other major trends in computational lexical semantics. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0912.00026].
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