Lexical Acquisition: Exploiting On-Line Resources to Build a Lexicon

It's taken a good three years to squeeze this collection of workshop papers through the publishing pipeline. No great matter: the state of the art in lexical acquisition is still much as it was. Editor Zernik has used the time to impose some coherence on the multi-disciplinary material by adding a substantial introduction, and at least some of the authors have cross-referenced their papers to other contributions. The effort has succeeded up to a point. But, as with most such proceedings, it is still up to the reader to fit the bits and pieces into a common frame of reference. The papers are as follows: