Inheritance, Defaults and the Lexicon

Contributors 1. Introduction Ted Briscoe 2. Skeptical and credulous default unification with applications to templates and inheritance Bob Carpenter 3. Prioritised multiple inheritance in DATR Roger Evans, Gerald Gazdar and Lionel Moser 4. Some reflections on the conversion of the TIC lexicon into DATR Lynne J. Cahill 5. Norms or inference tickets? a frontal collision between intuitions Michael Morreau 6. Issues in the design of a language for representing linguistic information based on inheritance and feature structures Remi Zajac 7. Feature-based inheritance networks for computational lexicons Hans-Ulrich Krieger and John Nerbonne 8. A practical approach to multiple default inheritance for unification-based lexicons Graham Russell, Afzal Ballim, John Carroll and Susan Warwick-Armstrong 9. The ACQUILEX LKB: an introduction Ann Copestake, Antonio Sanfilippo, Ted Briscoe and Valeria de Paiva 10. Types and constraints in the LKB Valeria de Paiva 11. LKB encoding of lexical knowledge Antonio Sanfilippo 12. Defaults in lexical representation Ann Copestake 13. Untangling definition structure into knowledge representation Piek Vossen and Ann Copestake Appendices References Indexes.