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The first formally elaborated theory of a generative approach to word meaning, The Generative Lexicon lays the foundation for an implemented computational treatment of word meaning that connects explicitly to a compositional semantics.The Generative Lexicon presents a novel and exciting theory of lexical semantics that addresses the problem of the'multiplicity of word meaning'; that is, how we are able to give an infinite number of senses to words with finite means. The first formally elaborated theory of a generative approach to word meaning, it lays the foundation for an implemented computational treatment of word meaning that connects explicitly to a compositional semantics.In contrast to the static view of word meaning (where each word is characterized by a predetermined number of word senses) that imposes a tremendous bottleneck on the performance capability of any natural language processing system, Pustejovsky proposes that the lexicon becomes an active—and central—component in the linguistic description. The essence of his theory is that the lexicon functions generatively, first by providing a rich and expressive vocabulary for characterizing lexical information; then, by d

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Author
Pustejovsky, James
Publisher
The MIT Press
Published
1995
Language
EN
ISBN
9780585353470
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Linguistics, Language Learning, Literary Fiction

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