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Re: Semantic lexicon, qualia and Pustejovsky

From:Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
Date:Sunday, March 28, 2004, 7:05
Sorry, one of my fingers went apparently on "Send" and
Yahoo forgot to ask me whether I agreed or not. Nice
that Yahoo doens't manage Army missile launching (or
does it ?)

So 3/ to study whether this can be a good start for
conceiving a computerized semantic lexicon.

Thanx in advance.

--- Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...> wrote:
> John Cowan's last message about lexicons (referring > to > an article about how implementing a lexicon in Perl > - > quite interesting from a technical point of view) > brought back a wide question to my mind: what is > definition ? > > Hundreds of books have been written on the topic, of > course, but what I would like to understand clearly, > to start with, has been studied by Pustejovsky I > think. As far as I remember, he used Aristote's > theory > of the qualia. I read pages and pages about it, but > at > the moment, the only thing I can remember (true, > it's > early Sunday morning) is that: > > - you can define a concept using a "sort-of" > operator > (a mouse is a sort, or kind of, mammal, etc) > > - you can define it by its goal, or use (a rake is > an > artefact used to..., etc) > > There were two more qualia, among them an > "agent" > if I remember, but I can't think of any concrete > examples (maybe: a postman is a human being whose > function is to deliver mail ???). Mayve I just mixed > up everything and it's not that at all. > > So if somebody could explain me the whole thing in a > few simple words, it would be great. My concern is: > > 1/ to understand the point of this qualia thing > > 2/ to clearly understand each one of the 4 qualia, > to > judge whether from my point of view they are > relevant > or not, to understand why there are 4 of them and > not > 3 or 12 for ex. > > 3/ to see if this ca > > > > > > ===== > Philippe Caquant > > "High thoughts must have high language." > (Aristophanes, Frogs) > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on > time. > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html
===== Philippe Caquant "High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html