An NLP lexicon as a largely language-independent resource

Machine Translation

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 139-173

  McShane, Marjorie ^a   Nirenburg, Sergei ^a   Beale, Stephen ^a  

^a University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge rich NLP; Language independent resources; Lexicon; Ontological Semantics; Semantics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

KNOWLEDGE-RICH NLP; LANGUAGE-INDEPENDENT RESOURCES; LEXICON; ONTOLOGICAL SEMANTICS;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 33746641422     PISSN: 09226567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10590-006-9001-y     Document Type: Article

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