Relational Models of the Lexicon

Withthefirstpublicationofthisbookin1988,thecentralityofthelexiconinlanguageresearchwasbecomingincreasinglyapparentandtheuseofrelationalmodelsofthelexiconhadbeentheparticularfocusofresearchinavarietyofdisciplinessincetheearly1980s.Thisconvergenceofapproachmadethepresentcollectionespeciallywelcomeforbringingtogetherreportsoftheoreticaldevelopmentsandapplicationsinrelationalsemanticsincomputerscience,linguistics,cognitivescience,anthropologyandindustrialresearch.Itexplainsindetailsomeimportantapplicationsofrelationalmodelstotheconstructionofnaturallanguageinterfaces,thebuildingofthesauriforbibliographicinformationretrievalsystemsandthecompilationofterminologybanksformachinetranslationsystems.RelationalModelsoftheLexiconnotonlyprovidesaninvaluablesurveyofresearchinrelationalsemantics,butoffersastimulusforpotentialresearchadvancesinsemantics,naturallanguageprocessingandknowledgerepresentation.