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A computationally relevant theory of lexical semantics must take into consideration both the form and the content of three different static knowledge sources — the lexicon, the ontological domain model and a text meaning representation language. Meanings of lexical units are interpreted in terms of their mappings into the ontology and/or their contributions to the text meaning representation. We briefly describe one such theory. Its precepts have been used in dionysus, a machine translation system prototype.
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Onyshkevych, B.A., Nirenburg, S. (1992). Lexicon, ontology, and text meaning. In: Pustejovsky, J., Bergler, S. (eds) Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation. SIGLEX 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 627. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55801-2_42
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