A comprehensive theory-based approach to the treatment of text meaning in natural
language processing applications. In Ontological Semantics, Sergei Nirenburg and Victor …

Machine translation (MT) is the area of computer science and applied linguistics dealing
with the translation of human languages such as English and German. MT on the Internet …

Electric Words delves first into the philosophical background of the study of meaning,
specifically word meaning, then into the early work on treating dictionaries as texts, the first …

EuroWordNet2 is a multilingual lexical database with wordnets for several European
languages, which are structured along the same lines as the Princeton WordNet (Fellbaum …

This paper is a survey of the current machine translation research in the US, Europe and
Japan. A short history of machine translation is presented first, followed by an overview of …

We describe minimal recursion semantics (MRS), a framework for semantics within HPSG,
which considerably simplifies transfer and generation. We discuss why, in general, a …

Inheritance is an inference mechanism originally defined for semantic network formalisms. It
allows redundancy to be removed from the description of a domain by factoring out reusable …

In this paper the linguistic design of the database under construction within the
EuroWordNet project is described. This is mainly structured along the same lines as the …

In this paper we present a methodology for extracting information about lexical translation
equivalences from the machine readable versions of conventional dictionaries (MRDs), and …

Six years ago at the first MT Summit conference, the field of MT was dominated by
approaches which had been established in the late 1970s. These were the systems which …