Semantic Domains in Computational Linguistics

• Main Authors: Gliozzo, Alfio (Author), Strapparava, Carlo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Information storage and retrieval.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational linguistics.; Computational Linguistics.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Information Storage and Retrieval.

Semantic fields are lexically coherent – the words they contain co-occur in texts. In this book the authors introduce and define semantic domains, a computational model for lexical semantics inspired by the theory of semantic fields. Semantic domains allow us to exploit domain features for texts, te...