Table of Contents

1. Introduction; Part I. The Structure of the Lexicon: 2. The explanatory combinatorial dictionary Igor Mel'cuk and Alexander Zholkovsky; 3. The dictionary and the thesaurus can be combined Nicoletta Calzolari; 4. A lexicon for a medical expert system Thomas Ahlswede and Martha Evens; 5. Using a lexicon of canonical graphs in a semantic interpreter John Sowa; Part II. Representing Lexical Knowledge: 6. How to teach a network: minimal design features for a cultural acquisition device or C-KAD Oswald Werner; 7. Information dependencies in lexical subentries Joseph E. Grimes; 8. Determination of lexical-semantic relations for multi-lingual terminology structures John S. White; 9. Improved retrieval using a relational thesaurus for automatic expansion of Boolean logic queries Edward A. Fox; 10. A lexical, syntactic and semantic framework for TELI: a user customised natural language processor Bruce W. Ballard; Part III. The Nature of Lexical Relations; 11. An exploration into graded set membership Judith Markowitz; 12. Problems of the part-whole relation Madelyn Anne Iris; 13. The nature of semantic relations: a comparison of two approaches Roger Chaffin; 14. Relational models and metascience William Frawley; Index.

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