[Corpora-List] *** SUMMARY *** Semantic Primitives

From: Aleem Hossain (A.Hossain@cs.bham.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 29 2005 - 13:25:33 MET DST

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    Dear all,

    Thanks for your replies on this topic. I include a summary of responses
    below.

    Cheers,
    Aleem

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    A number of people suggested work by Anna Wierzbicka, and in pariticular
    her book "Semantics, Primes and Universals."

    A couple of list members also recommended The Natural Semantic
    Metalanguage Homepage (maintained by Cliff Goddard) which lists a lot of
    resources and
    information about his and Anna Wierzbicka's approach based on semantic
    primes. The site also provides links to a number of online papers and a
    bibliography of NSM works:

    http://www.une.edu.au/arts/LCL/disciplines/linguistics/nsmpage.htm

    Yorick Wilks, however, added a note of caution that the linguistic
    approach (like Wierzbicka) won't demonstrate the many pracitcal systems
    based on semantic primitives. He suggested an encyclopedia of
    language/linguistics as a goot starting point.

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    Eric Atwell suggested his work on semantic primitives, based on LDOCE
    defining vocabulary:
                                                                                   
    Demetriou G and Atwell E. 2001. A domain-independent semantic tagger for
    the study of meaning associations in English text. In Harry Bunt, Ielka
    van der Sluis and Elias Thijsse (editors), Proceedings of the Fourth
    International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-4) pp.67-80.
    Tilburg, Netherlands
    http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric/iwcs.pdf

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    Finally, Ute Römer directed me to the mailing list "NSM-L" for
    semantic-primitives-enthusiasts:
    https://mailman.rice.edu/pipermail/funknet/2002-September/002331.html). 

    -- 
Aleem Hossain (Research Student)
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University of Birmingham,
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