Full Description
Lexical Ontological Semantics introduces ontological methods into lexical semantic studies with the aim of giving impetus to various fields of endeavours which envision and model the semantic network of a language. Lexical ontological semantics (LOS) provides a cognition-based computation-oriented framework in which nouns and predicates are described in terms of their semantic knowledge and models the mechanism in which the noun system is coupled with the predicate system. It expands the scope of lexical semantics, updates methodologies to semantic representation, guides the construction of semantic resources for natural language processing, and develops new theories for human-machine interactions and communications.
Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: From Lexis to Lexical Ontological Semantics
1 The Semantic Network and Ontological Lexicology
2 A Qualia-Structure Descriptive System for Nouns
3 An Argument-Structure Descriptive System for Predicates
4 The QS-AS Coupling Mechanism
5 A Corpus-Based Lexicon-Construction Interactive Model
6 Automatic Restoration of Implicit Predicates
7 Qualia Structure and Translated Text Analysis
8 Conclusion
References
Index
