ACQUILEX I WORKING PAPERS
Some papers are available on-line,
as indicated (see the summary page
for details of format etc).
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Technical reports
can be obtained by
contacting tech-reports@cl.cam.ac.uk.
Other papers can be obtained direct from the authors
(see Where are they now?
for authors who were at
the Cambridge Computer Laboratory).
In addition to papers listed here,
several papers reporting work carried out on ACQUILEX I can be
found in: E.J. Briscoe, A. Copestake and V. de Paiva (editors),
Inheritance, Defaults and the Lexicon,
Cambridge University Press (1993).
Vossen P.
October 1989, "Polysemy and vagueness of meaning
descriptions in the Longman dictionary of contemporary
English" (also to be published in: J. Svartvik
and H. Wekker (eds.) Topics in English Linguistics,
Mouton de Gruyter, The Hague)
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.001
Vossen P.
December 1989, "Getting to grips with the structure of the
VanDale Dictionary"
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.002
Condoravdi C.
March 1990, "Symmetric Predicates, Verbal Classes
& Diathesis Alternations"
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.003
Sanfilippo A.
March 1990, "A Morphological Analyser for English & Italian"
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.004
Calzolari, N. and A. Zampolli
April 1990, "Lexical Databases and Textual Corpora: a trend of
convergence between Computational Linguistics and Literary and
Linguistic Computing",(also in Susan Hockey and
Nancy Ide (eds.), Research in Humanities Computing, OUP,
Oxford, 1991)
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.005
Calzolari, N.
May 1990, "Lexical Databases and Textual Corpora: perspectives
of integration for a Lexical Knowledge Base"
(in U.Zernik (ed.), Lexical Acquisition: Exploiting on-line
Resources to build a Lexicon, Laurence Erlbaum, 1990)
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.006
Condoravdi C. and A. Sanfilippo
July 1990, "Notes on Psychological Predicates",
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.007
Copestake A.
July 1990, "An approach to building the hierarchical
element of a lexical knowledge base from a machine readable
dictionary", in Proceedings of the First International
Workshop on Inheritance in Natural Language Processing,
Tilburg, pp. 19-29.
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.008
acq1wp8 (LaTeX)
Vossen P., and I. Serail
July 1990, "Word-Devil: A taxonomy-browser for decomposition
via the lexicon"
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.009
Vossen P.
July 1990, "The end of the chain: Where does decomposition of
lexical knowledge lead us eventually?", (also to be published
in: Proceedings of the 4th conference of Functional Grammar,
June 1990, Kopenhagen)
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.010
Briscoe T., A. Copestake and B. Boguraev
August 1990, "Enjoy the Paper: Lexical Semantics via Lexicology"
in Proceedings of COLING, 13th InternationalConference
on Computational Linguistics, Helsinki, pp. 42-47.
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.011
Copestake A.
September 1990, "A system for building disambiguated taxonomies."
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.012
Meijs W.
September 1990, "The Expanding Lexical Universe: Extracting
Taxonomies from Machine-Readable Dictionaries", in
EURALEX'90 Proceedings, Biblograf, S.A. (Eds.), Barcelona,
Spain, 1992.
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.13
Vossen P.
January 1991, "Comparing noun-taxonomies cross-linguistically".
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.014
Roventini A., Antelmi D.
November 1990, "Semantic Relationships within a Set of Verbal
Entries in the Italian Lexical Database", in
EURALEX'90 Proceedings, Biblograf, S.A. (Eds.), Barcelona,
Spain, 1992.
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.15
Calzolari N.
March 1991, "Acquiring and Representing Semantic Information
in a Lexical Knowledge Base", in
J. Pustejovsky, S. Bergler (eds.), Lexical Semantics and
Knowledge Representation, Berkeley, USA, 1991.
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.016
Marinai E., Peters C., Picchi E.
March 1991, "A Prototype System for the Semi-automatic
Sense Linking and Merging of Mono- and Bilingual
LDBs", paper presented at ACH/ALLC 91, Tempe, Usa, March
1991 and to be published in N. Ide and S. Hockey (eds.)
"Research in Humanities Computing", OUP.
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.017
Castellon I., Marti M.A.
October 1990 "Gramatica para el Analisis del
Diccionario Vox", Proceedings of the 6th
ANNUAL MEETING OF SEPLN (SOCIEDAD ESPANOLA
para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural),
San Sebastian, Spain.
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.018
Castellon I.,Rigau G., Rodriguez, H., Marti M.A., Verdejo, M.F.,
June 1991, "Loading the MRD into the LDB. Characteristics
of the Vox Dictionary".
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.019
Ageno A., Cardoze S., Castellon I., Marti M.A., Rigau G.,
Rodriguez H., Taule M., Verdejo M.F.,
June 1991, "An Environment for the
Management and Extraction of Taxonomies from
On-line Dictionaries".
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.020
Copestake A.A. and Briscoe E.J.
June 1991 "Lexical Operations in a Unification Based
Framework" in Proceedings of ACL SIGLEX Workshop on
Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation,
Berkeley, California, pp 88-101.
and: J. Pustejovsky and S. Bergler (editors)
Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1992
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.021
acq1wp21 (LaTeX)
Briscoe E.J. and Copestake A.A.
June 1991 "Sense Extensions as Lexical Rules"
in Computational approaches to non-literal language:
metaphor, metonymy, idiom, speech acts, implicature.
D. Fass, E. Hinkelman and J. Martin (eds)
Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on
Computational Approaches to Non-Literal Language,
Sydney, Australia, pp.12-20
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.022
acq1wp22 (LaTeX)
Montemagni S.
November 1991, "Specializing a Broad Coverage Grammar for
the Analysis of Dictionary Definitions"
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.023
Oestling A.
November 1991, "Sense Extensions in the Italian Food Subset"
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.024
Vossen P.
November 1991, "An Empirical Approach to Automatically
construct a Knowledge Base from Dictionaries"
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.025
Meijs W., Stemmerik Y.
November 1991, "Compounds in MRDs: Analysis and
Interpretation"
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.026
Vossen P.
November 1991, "Converting data from a lexical database
to a knowledge base"
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.027
Ageno A., Castellon I., Marti M.A., Ribas G., Rigau G.,
Rodriguez H., Taule M., Verdejo M.F.,
October 1991, "The Extraction of Semantic Information
from MRDs"
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.028
Marinai E., Picchi E., Peters C.
October 1991, "A Procedure for Interactive Sense
Disambiguation"
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.029
Ageno A., Castellon I., Marti M.A., Ribas F., Rigau G.,
Rodriguez H., Taule M., Verdejo M.F.,
November 1991, "SEISD: User Manual. Guide to the
Extraction and Conversion of Taxonomies".
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.030
Alonge A.
March 1991, Extraction of Information on Aktionsart from
Verb Definitions in machine-readable dictionaries,
paper presented at the Conference on "Natural Language
Processing and its Applications", 11th International
Workshop on Expert Systems and their Applications,
Avignon, 27 - 31 May 1991.
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.031
Montemagni S., Vanderwende L.
April 1991, "String Patterns versus Structural Patterns
for Extracting Semantic Information from Dictionaries"
(also in COLING-92, vol. II, Nantes 1992)
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.032
Sanfilippo A.
April 1991, Aspectual and Thematic Information
in Verb Semantics. Belgian Journal
of Linguistics, 6, 1991.
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.033
Sanfilippo A.
1991, "Argument Selection and Selection
Change: An Integrated Approach."
Proceedings of the 27th Regional Meeting of the
Chicago Linguistic Society, forthcoming.
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.034
Sanfilippo A., Poznanksi V.
April 1992, "The Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge
from Combined Machine-Readable Sources."
Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Applied
Natural Language Processing, Trento, Italy, pp 80-88
April 1992,
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.035
Copestake A.
April 1992, "The ACQUILEX LKB: Representation Issues
in the Semi-automatic Acquisition of Large Lexicons."
Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Applied
Natural Language Processing, Trento, Italy. pp 88-96
April 1992
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.036
Copestake A.
January 1992, "The representation of group denoting
nouns in a lexical knowledge base."
Proceedings of the Second Seminar on
Computational Lexical Semantics,
Toulouse, France. January 1992
In: P. St. Dizier and E. Viegas (editors)
Computational Lexical Semantics, Cambridge University Press, 1995
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.037
acq1wp37 (LaTeX)
Ageno A., Castellon I., Marti M.A., Ribas F., Rigau G.,
Rodriguez H., Taule M., Verdejo M.F.,
February, 1992, "A semi-automatic process to create LKB entries."
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.038
Ageno A., Castellon I., Marti M.A., Ribas F., Rigau G.,
Rodriguez H., Taule M., Verdejo M.F.,
?, 1992, "From LDB to LKB".
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.039
Briscoe T., A. Copestake and V. de Paiva (editors)
October 1991, "Proceedings of the ACQUILEX Workshop
on Default Inheritance in the Lexicon,
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory",
Technical Report No. 238, October 1991
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.040
Briscoe T.
November 1991, "Lexical Issues in Natural Language Processing"
in Natural Language and Speech,
E. Klein and F. Veltman (eds.), Springer-Verlag, 1991
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.041
acq1wp41 (LaTeX)
Hagman, J.
December 1991, "Common and Odd Relations in Italian
Dictionaries and their Treatment in Taxonomy Building"
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.044
Roventini, A.
December 1991, "Place Taxonomies within two Italian
Machine Readable Dictionaries: General and Distinctive
Features"
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.045
Sanfilippo, A., T. Briscoe, A. Copestake, M.A. Marti and A. Alonge
January 1992,
"Translation Equivalence and Lexicalization in the ACQUILEX LKB"
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.042
Copestake, A., B. Jones, A. Sanfilippo, H. Rodriguez, P. Vossen,
S. Montemagni and E. Marinai
January 1992,"Multilingual Lexical Representation".
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.043
acq1wp43 (LaTeX)
Oestling A.
April 1992, "Parts and Wholes in Dictionary Definitions"
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.046
Hagman, J.
MAY 1992, "Semantic Parsing of ITALIAN DICTIONARY
DEFINITIONS"
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.047
Alonge A.
May 1992, "Analysing Dictionary Definitions of Motion Verbs"
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.048
Alonge A.
May 1992, "Machine-Readable Dictionaries and Lexical Information
on Verbs"
ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.049