. This paper describes and discusses some theoretical and practical problems arising from developing a system to combine the structured but incomplete information from machine readable dictionaries (MRDs) with the unstructured but more complete information available in corpora for the creation of a bilingual lexical data base, presenting a methodology to integrate information from both sources into a single lexical data structure. The bicord system (BIlingual CORpus-enhanced Dictionaries) involves linking entries in Collins English-French and FrenchEnglish bilingual dictionary with a large English-French and French-English bilingual corpus. We have concentrated on the class of action verbs of movement, building on earlier work on lexical correspondences specific to this verb class between languages (Klavans and Tzoukermann, 1989), (Klavans and Tzoukermann, 1990a), (Klavans and Tzoukermann, 1990b). 1 We first examine the way prototypical verbs of movement are translated in the Collin...

I briefly rehearse a general characterization of logicism that includes projects within philosophical logic, linguistics, and artificial intelligence. After a digression in which I survey work in natural language semantics that I claim is very relevant to common sense logicism, I describe a logicist project that attempts to formalize semantic relations among words in natural languages. Introduction This paper has three main goals. I will (1) advocate a more general account of logicism than the one that is current in philosophy of mathematics; (2) motivate a logicist program in an area of natural language semantics that turns out to be closely related to problems in the formalization of common sense; and (3) provide a brief survey of the research tradition in "natural language metaphysics." This tradition, which seeks to provide a broadly logical theory that will account for meaning relations in human languages, is probably best regarded as a subdiscipline of common sense logic...

this paper, I will outline briefly what I think can be said about natural language semantics, and how this position is both defensible and preferable to FL's resounding silence over the many semantic phenomena demanding explanation. 2 Generative Lexicon Theory and Knowledge of Language

The purpose of this research is to determine the best method for deciding on an optimal set of concatenative units for concatenative speech synthesis. Of the two main approaches to speech synthesis: segmental synthesis and rule-based synthesis, the former relies heavily on the successful choice of concatenative units. Segmental synthesis consists of concatenating segmental units (diphones, triphones, etc); rule-based synthesis consists of the computation of control parameters based on pre-established rules. Deciding on the set of diphones is quite straightforward in the sense that it suffices to take the phoneme inventory of a language, and simply combine each phoneme with every other one. For example, taking the approximately 35 French phonemes, 1225 phonemic pairs (35x35) constitute the complete and exhaustive starting diphone inventory. On the other hand, deciding on the set of triphones, quadriphones and larger units raises difficult questions about the nature of phonemes in a give...