Computational approaches to the lexicon

The new science of computational lexicology and lexicography has arisen through contact and collaboration between representatives of three hitherto distinct disciplines: lexicography, linguistics, and computer science. The Pisa International Summer Schools on Computational Lexicology and Lexicography have played a crucial role, providing a regular forum for interdisciplinary contact. In this volume, which had its origins in the fifth Summer School, distinguished scholars provide a broad perspective on the field. In their overview paper Sue Atkins, Beth Levin, and Antonio Zampolli trace the development of computational lexicography and its links to theoretical linguistics. The sections which follow discuss the collection and processing of textual data, the theoretical infrastructure of lexical analysis, and current tools and methodologies.

1. Introduction / A. Zampolli -- 2. Computational Approaches to the Lexicon: An Overview / B.T.S. Atkins, Beth Levin and A. Zampolli -- 3. Not Chance but Choice: Criteria in Corpus Creation / Gunnel Engwall -- 4. Encoding a Corpus in Machine-Readable Form: The Approach of the Text Encoding Initiative / Stig Johansson -- 5. A Parser for Text Corpora / Donald Hindle -- 6. Lexical Substitutability / Kenneth Ward Church, William Gale, Patrick Hanks, Donald Hindle and Rosamund Moon -- 7. Descriptive and Theoretical Syntax in the Lexicon / Annie Zaenen and Elisabet Engdahl -- 8. Constructing Lexicon-Grammars / Maurice Gross -- 9. Grammatical Data in the Lexicon / Eva Hajicova -- 10. The Lexicon in a Computational Functional Grammar / Simon C. Dik -- 11. A Richer Characterization of Dictionary Entries: The Role of Knowledge Representation / James Pustejovsky and Branimir Boguraev -- 12. Lexicon Acquisition for NLP: A Consumer Report / Sergei Nirenburg.