The paper introduces an alternative to the lexical rules in a lexicon in a HPSG style by replacing them by relational constraints corresponding more directly to the standard lexico-graphic and morphological practice. 1. INTRODUCTION The Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG, Polhu'd & Sag,87 and 93) came into be= ing as and remains a predominantly syntactic theory. This is reflected not on...

The WordNet lexical database is now quite large and offers broad coverage of general lexical relations in English. As is evident in this volume, WordNet has been employed as a resource for many applications in natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR). However, many potentially useful lexical relations are currently missing from WordNet. Some of these relations, while use...

While the plain language movement has shed light on lack of readability statutory texts for lay person, there been a empirical methodology employed to determine ways in which differs lexico-grammatically from forms popular that are familiar person. With this mind, present study conducts comparative analysis and other written (i.e., corpus news reports, sports encyclopedia articles, historical a...