IN the following discussion I shall present preliminary results from an investigation of structuring within the lexicon of a language. These results suggest that in certain areas of the lexicon lexical items must be characterized in terms of the presence or absence of specific recurring lexico-semantic components. Furthermore, there seems to be some promise that correspondence between lexical i...

Multi-word lexical units are a typical feature of specialized dictionaries, in particular monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. The paper studies the concept of the multi-word lexical unit and considers the similarities and differences of their selection and presentation in monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. The work analyses such issues as the classification of multi-w...

This paper describes GermaNet, a lexical-semantic network and on-line thesaurus for the German language, and outlines its future extension and use. GermaNet is structured along the same lines as the Princeton WordNet (Miller et al., 1990; Fellbaum, 1998), encoding the major semantic relations like synonymy, hyponymy, meronymy, etc. that hold among lexical items. Constructing semantic networks l...