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Representation of lexical knowledge

Minimal lexicon: syntactic information (parts of speech, possible subcategorizations, case, number, person, finiteness, etc.) Such a lexicon is only useful for parsing, as no semantic meaning is given. All inflectional forms have to be listed, as no morphological information is given. The lexicon does not know the relation between "love" and "loves" yet. Expanded lexicon:



Dafydd Gibbon
Thu Feb 12 11:04:00 MET 1998