The Generative Lexicon

By James Pustejovsky. 1991

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Multi-Agent Cooperation and the Emergence of (Natural) Language (2016, background): “Similar semantic shifts are a core characteristic of natural language (e.g., Pustejovsky, 1995), and thus subjects were, in many cases, able to successfully play the referential game with our sender (10/10 subjects guessed the dolphin target, and 8/10 the fence).”
Verb Semantics and Lexical Selection (1994, background): “2 The generative lexicon Pustejovsky's generative lexicon (Pustejovsky, 1991a) is a recent attempt to nd ways to extend word meanings.”
Distributional Memory: A General Framework for Corpus-Based Semantics (2010, neutral): “We illustrate this with the data set of Cimiano and Wenderoth (2007), which contains qualia structures (Pustejovsky 1995) for 30 nominal concepts, both concrete ( door ) and abstract ( imagination ).”
Domain and Function: A Dual-Space Model of Semantic Relations and Compositions (2012, background): “Quad-space seems to be related to Pustejovsky’s (1991) four-part qualia structure.”
Coercion in sentence processing: evidence from eye-movements and self-paced reading (2002, methodology): “Although our results are fully consistent with the computational machinery outlined in Pustejovsky (1995), they do not, of course, exclude other approaches.”
The English Resultative as a Family of Constructions (2004, background): “It’s hard to imagine making someone else go to sleep by crying (the putative meaning of 34b); whereas it is of 19 See Pustejovsky 1995 for further discussion and formalization of various possible temporal relations among subevents. course possible to make something else wiggle someplace and to make ”
Understanding Natural Language Understanding Systems. A Critical Analysis (2023, background): “…that a semantic theory is called to explain concerns not only the ability of generating and understanding a potentially unlimited number of complex expressions, but also the ability of generating and understanding a potentially unlimited number of new word senses in context (Pustejovsky 1995).”
Paper has been my ruin: Conceptual relations of polysemous senses (2002, background): “Pustejovsky (1995) describes in some detail the way in which such relations may cause polysemy.”
The polysemy of measurement (2014, methodology): “While I won’t endorse any particular account of the container/substance polysemy, I am sympathetic with the assumption, advocated in Pustejovsky (1995) and Pustejovsky and Bouillon (1995), that a polysemy which exhibits syntactic or semantic restrictions should be analyzed as semantic.”
Representing word meaning and order information in a composite holographic lexicon. (2007, background): “Traditionally, the lexicon has been viewed as a dictionary database, each entry containing a words meaning and, in some cases, even its syntactic rules and phonological characteristics (see Elman, 2004, and Pustejovsky, 1996, for reviews).”
COMPLEX PREDICATES INVOLVING EVENTS, TIME AND ASPECT: IS THIS WHY SIGN LANGUAGES LOOK SO SIMILAR? (2007, methodology): “Section 2 discusses the Event Structure model of Pustejovsky (1991, 1992, 1995, 2000), which allows the generalizations regarding the semantic components to be stated.”
Integrating Subject Field Codes into WordNet (2000, background): “Regular polysemy (Pustejovsky, 1995) occurs when two senses of the same words are systematically related by a logical relation.”