Technical reports

Proceedings of the ACQUILEX Workshop on Default Inheritance in the lexicon

Edited by Ted Briscoe, Ann Copestake, Valeria de Paiva

October 1991, 180 pages

DOI: 10.48456/tr-238

Abstract

The ACQUILEX Esprit BRA (Basic Research Action) research project is concerned with the acquisition and representation of lexical information from machine readable dictionaries for use in Natural Language Processing. The Cambridge group of the ACQUILEX project organised a Workshop on Default Inheritance in April 1991, the main purpose of which was to review approaches to default inheritance for lexical organisation and representation. The emphasis from ACQUILEX’s point of view was in implementing a practical system capable of supporting substantial lexicons, based on existing proposals to incorporate (default) inheritance into a unification-based framework similar to DATR (Gazdar and Evans, 1989) and HPSG (e.g. Carpenter, 1990).

The workshop consisted of two days of talks, where theoretical and implementational issues on default inheritance were discussed, as well as a last day of demonstrations of implemented systems. Papers from several European colaborative projects on the topic of the workshop were presented – see enclosed list of titles and affiliations. The Cambridge ACQUILEX group presented and demonstrated the ACQUILEX lexical knowledge base (LKB) system and provided a tutorial on use of the software. The TFS system of the project POLYGLOSS and the system ELU of the group at ISSCO were also discussed and demonstrated.

Many thanks to all the participants for the lively discussions – exactly what workshops are supposed to be for.

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@Proceedings{UCAM-CL-TR-238,
  editor =	 {Briscoe, Ted and Copestake, Ann and de Paiva, Valeria},
  title = 	 {{Proceedings of the ACQUILEX Workshop on Default
         	   Inheritance in the lexicon}},
  year = 	 1991,
  month = 	 oct,
  url = 	 {https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-238.pdf},
  institution =  {University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory},
  doi = 	 {10.48456/tr-238},
  number = 	 {UCAM-CL-TR-238}
}