An Object-Oriented and Fast Lexicon for Semantic Generation

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dc.creatorHijzelendoorn, Maarten
dc.creatorCremers, Crit
dc.date2009-05-20
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T13:16:50Z
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dc.descriptionThis paper is about the technical design of a large computational lexicon, its storage, and its access from a Prolog environment. Traditionally, efficient access and storage of data structures is implemented by a relational database management system. In Delilah, a lexicon-based NLP system, efficient access to the lexicon by the semantic generator is vital. We show that our highly detailed HPSG-style lexical specifications do not fit well in the Relational Model, and that they cannot be efficiently retrieved. We argue that they fit more naturally in the Object-Oriented Model. Although storage of objects is redundant, we claim that efficient access is still possible by applying indexing, and compression techniques from the Relational Model to the Object-Oriented Model. We demonstrate that it is possible to implement object-oriented storage and fast access in ISO Prolog.
dc.descriptionPaper presented at the 18th Computational Linguistics In the Netherlands Meeting (CLIN), Nijmegen, 10 December 2007, 15pp
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0905.3318
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0905.3318
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/230920
dc.subjectComputation and Language
dc.subjectDatabases
dc.subjectData Structures and Algorithms
dc.subjectInformation Retrieval
dc.subjectProgramming Languages
dc.titleAn Object-Oriented and Fast Lexicon for Semantic Generation
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