LINGUIST List 12.439

Fri Feb 16 2001

Books: Computational Linguistics

Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomilinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Kimberly Kahn, Comp Ling: Polysemy by Y. Ravin & C. Leacock (eds.)

POLYSEMY: Theoretical and Computational Approaches
Edited by Yael Ravin, T. J. Watson Research Center of IBM, New York, 
 and Claudia Leacock

Polysemy is a term used in semantic and lexical analysis to describe a
word with multiple meanings. Although such words present few
difficulties in everyday communication, they do pose near-intractable
problems for linguists and lexicographers. The contributors in this
volume consider the implications of these problems for linguistic
theory and how they may be addressed in computational linguistics.

Contents: 

1. Polysemy: An overview, Yael Ravin and Claudia Leacock 
2. Aspects of the Micro-Structure of Word Meanings, D. Alan Cruse 
3. Autotroponomy, Christiane Fellbaum 
4. Lexical Shadowing and Argument Closure, James Pustejovsky 
5. Describing Polysemy: The case of Crawl, Charles J. Fillmore and 
 B. T. S. Atkins 
6. The Garden Swarms with Bees and the Fallacy of 'Argument Alternation', 
 David Dowty 
7. Polysemy: A problem of definition, Cliff Goddard 
8. Lexical Representations for Sentence Processing, 
 George A. Miller and Claudia Leacock 
9. Large Vocabulary Word Sense Disambiguation, Mark Stevenson and Yorick Wilks
10.Polysemy in a Broad-Coverage Natural Language Processing System, 
 William Dolan, Lucy Vanderwende, and Stephen Richardson 
11.Disambiguation and Connectionism, Hinrich Sch�tze

August 2000 240 pp.; 11 b/w figs.
0-19-823842-8 $74.00
Oxford University Press


Kimberly Kahn
Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 726-6086 Fax: (212) 726-6442 E-mail: krkoup-usa.org