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Semantic features in a generic lexiconGabriel G. Bès, Alain Lecomte

To cite this version:Gabriel G. Bès, Alain Lecomte. Semantic features in a generic lexicon. Patrick Saint-Dizier; Eve-lyne Viegas. Computational Lexical Semantics, Cambridge University Press, pp.141-162, 1995,9780521023207. �hal-01146172�

Semantic features in a generic lexiconGabriel G. Bès, Alain Lecomte

GRIL (Groupe de recherche dans les industries de la langue)Université Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand

Saint-Dizier P., Viegas E. (dir.), Computational Lexical Semantics,Cambridge University Press, p. 141-162, 1995

http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/computational-linguistics/computational-lexical-semantics?format=PB

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Abstract

Considering that there are many different syntactic and semantic theories, this article is concerned withentering enough information into a generic lexicon to provide each of these theories with what it needsto work. Providing information for different uses implies organizing that information into a hierarchyof pieces of information. The first part of the article is devoted to this question. The hierarchy ofinformation comes from an observational level and is based on a description of a language, payingattention to what constructions are permitted or not. The second part of the article defines adescription meta-language for semantic information, linked to the phenomenological description ofthe syntax. In the third part, the authors examine nouns, and how the descriptions of meanings can bearranged in order to solve questions of metaphor and polysemy.