Book Reviews: Computational lexical semantics

The last decade has seen a striking expansion of interest in the lexicon and in lexical semantics. Within theoretical linguistics, this trend can be measured by the increasing interest generative grammarians have displayed toward such issues as lexical conceptual structure and argument structure and by the increased appeal of cognitive semantics. Within computational linguistics, the same period has seen a burgeoning of interest in the construction of semantically realistic lexicons and their integration with larger Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems. Computational lexical semantics supplies a fascinating snapshot of the state-of-the-art in the early 1990s. The articles date from late 1991 or early 1992, reflecting the immediate impact of Pustejovsky's theory of the generative lexicon (1991), but lacking references to George Miller's WordNet system (1990). The book is organized into six sections: