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This paper discusses the derivation of a natural set of semantic primitives from a machine readable dictionary, especially the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (henceforth LDOCE). It is part of a on-going project under way at the Computing Research Laboratory (Wilks, et al. 1988). The project is currently funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Guo, CM. (1990). Deriving a Natural Set of Semantic Primitives from Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. In: Smeaton, A.F., McDermott, G. (eds) AI and Cognitive Science ’89. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3164-9_18
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