The automatic disambiguation of word senses hasbeen an interest and concern since the
earliest days of computer treatment of language in the 1950s. Sense disambiguation is an" …

Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) was proposed as a unified evaluation framework to
compare semantic understanding of different NLP systems. In this survey paper, we provide …

Metaphor is a special linguistic phenomenon, challenging diverse natural language
processing tasks. Previous works focused on either metaphor identification or domain …

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 …

Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents offers a radical shift in the analysis of discourse
anaphora, from a purely pragmatic account to a cognitive account, in terms of processing …

Automated metaphor detection is a challenging task to identify metaphorical expressions of
words in a sentence. To tackle this problem, we adopt pre-trained contextualized models …

The Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition presents practical tools
and techniques for implementing natural language processing in computer systems. Along …

In this paper we examine the role of events within a theory of lexical semantics. We propose
a configurational theory of event structure and examine how it contributes to a lexical …

Understanding human's language requires complex world knowledge. However, existing
large-scale knowledge graphs mainly focus on knowledge about entities while ignoring …

Introducing issues in dynamic memory and case-based reasoning, this comprehensive
volume presents extended descriptions of four major programming efforts conducted at Yale …