| Abstract: |
Computational lexicology is the computational study and use of electronic lexicons, encompassing the form, meaning, and behavior of words. Beginning in the 1960s, machine-readable dictionaries have been analyzed to extract information for use in natural language processing applications. This research used defining patterns to extract semantic relations and to develop semantic networks of words and their definitions. Language engineering for applications such as word-sense disambiguation, information extraction, question answering, and text summarization is currently driving the evolution of computational lexicons. The most important problem in the field is a semantic imperative, the representation of meaning to understand the equivalence of differently worded expressions. |