Originally published in 1997, this book is concerned with human language technology. This
technology provides computers with the capability to handle spoken and written language …

The first formally elaborated theory of a generative approach to word meaning, The
Generative Lexicon lays the foundation for an implemented computational treatment of word …

In this paper we discuss various aspects of systematic or conventional polysemy and their
formal treatment within an implemented constraint-based approach to linguistic …

Abstract The LinGO (Linguistic Grammars Online) project's English Resource Grammar and
the LKB grammar development environment are language resources which are freely …

We describe the design of Comlex Syntax, a computational lexicon providing detailed
syntactic information for approximately 38,000 English headwords. We consider the types of …

This thesis is concerned with a unified approach to the systematic polysemy and
underspecification of nouns. Systematic polysemy--senses that are systematically related …

Verbs frequently permit their arguments to be expressed syntactically in more than one way.
Such verbs are said to exhibit diathesis alternations. These alternations lie at the bridge …

Default unification has been used in several linguistic applications. Most of them have
utilized defaults at a metalevel, as part of an extended description language. We propose …

We illustrate the utility of this approach with a treatment of dative constructions within a
linguistic framework that borrows insights from the constraint-based theories: HPSG …

In this paper, I will briefly describe the role of the lexicon in natural language processing
(NLP) applications and will go on to discuss a number of issues in lexical research and in …