Contributors xi
Preface xiii
Introduction 1
Robert A. Amsler
Part I: Forum on the Design and Construction of MTDs 15
1 Prelude 17
Cheng-ming Guo
2 Polysemy and Word Meaning 19
James Pustejovsky
3 Machine Tractable Dictionaries and Open Sublanguages 25
Lynette Hirschman
4 Lexical Knowledge Required for Natural
Language Processing 31
Arthur Cater
5 Sources for Machine Tractable Dictionaries 55
Nicoletta Calzolari
6 Neutral Dictionaries 59
Pim van der Eijk
7 Can a Neutral Dictionary Be Useful? 65
Allan Ramsay
8 Machine-Tractable Dictionaries in the 21st Century 75
Brian Slator
9 Ideal MRDs: The Perspective from Our Experience 79
J. Terry Nutter
10 Some Matters Examined in Driving MTD Development 85
Toshia Yokoi
11 A Lexicon Server Using Lexical Relations
for Information Retrieval 89
Edward A. Fox, J. Terry Nutter, and Martha W. Evens
12 Some Dictionary Information for Machine Translation 93
Makoto Nagao
13 Aspects of a Machine Tractable Dictionary
for Knowledge-Based Machine Translation 103
Sergei Nirenberg
14 A Connectionist Machine-Tractable Dictionary:
The Very Idea 113
Noel E. Sharkey, Paul A. Day, and Amanda J. C. Sharkey
15 The Dynamic Database 131
B.T.S. Atkins

Part II: Constructing a MTD from LDOCE 145
Cheng-ming Guo
16 Introduction 147
17 Previous Work 159
18 Constructing a MTD from LDOCE 189
19 The Bootstrapping Process 209
20 Summary and Evaluation 217
21 Conclusion 223

References 227

Bibliography 235

Glossary 255

Appendix A: Sample Definition Text of Mini-LDOCE 257

Author Index 281

Subject Index 285