From Submit to Submitted via Submission: On Lexical Rules in Large-Scale Lexicon Acquisition

This paper deals with the discovery, representation, and use of lexical rules (LRs) during large-scale semi-automatic computational lexicon acquisition. The analysis is based on a set of LRs implemented and tested on the basis of Spanish and English business- and finance-related corpora. We show that, though the use of LRs is justified, they do not come costfree. Semi-automatic output checking is required, even with blocking and preemtion procedures built in. Nevertheless, largescope LRs are justified because they facilitate the unavoidable process of large-scale semi-automatic lexical acquisition. We also argue that the place of LRs in the computational process is a complex issue.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Evelyne Viegas, Boyan A. Onyshkevych, Victor Raskin, Sergei Nirenburg
• Keywords: ACL 1996, ACL 2007, Semi-automatic Computational Lexicon, Semi-automatic Lexical Acquisition, Semi-automatic Output Checking