Lexical Record

A Lexical Record is a data record whose referent is a lexical item.

• AKA: Lexical Entry.
• Context:
  • It can be a member of a Lexical Database.
  • It can includes Attributes for: Etymology Record, Part-of-Speech Role.
• Example(s):
  • Lexeme Record.
  • a Dictionary Record.
  • a Semantic Lexicon Record.
  • a WordNet Record.
  • a Word Sense Record.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Function Word Record.
  • a Syntactic Rule Record.
• See: Lexeme, Synomym.

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References

2009

• (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=lexical%20entry
  • S: (n) lexical entry, dictionary entry (the entry in a dictionary of information about a word)

2008

• (Crystal, 2008) ⇒ David Crystal. (2008). “A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 6th edition." Blackwell Publishing.
  • LEXIS A term used in LINGUISTICS to refer to the vocabulary of a LANGUAGE … A UNIT of vocabulary is generally referred to as a lexical item, or LEXEME. A complete inventory of the lexical items of a language constitutes that language's dictionary, or LEXICON … in the lexicon as a set of lexical entries. …

2004

• (Hirst, 2004) ⇒ Graeme Hirst. (2004). “Ontology and the Lexicon.” In: (Staab & Studer, 2004)

2003

• (Sag et al., 2003) ⇒ Ivan A. Sag, Thomas Wasow, and Emily M. Bender. (2003). “Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction, 2nd edition." CSLI Publications.
  • QUOTE: lexical entry Information about individual words [q.v.] that must be stipulated is put into the lexicon [q.v.] in the form of descriptions that we call lexical entries. They are ordered pairs, consisting of a phonological form (description) and partial feature structure description. Fully resolved lexical sequences [q.v.] consistent with lexical entries can serve as the INPUT values to lexical rules [q.v.].
• (Mitkov, 2003) ⇒ Ruslan Mitkov, editor. (2003). “The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics." Oxford University Press. ISBN:019927634X
  • QUOTE: lexical entry: A word or phrase in a used as a peg on which to hang information about part of speech, subcategorization, meaning, pronunciation, links to related terms, and/or any of various other kinds of information.

2002

• (Fellbaum, 2002) ⇒ Christine Fellbaum. (2002). “On the Semantics of Troponymy.” In: The Semantics of Relationships: An Interdisciplinary. R. Green, C. Bean, and S. Myaeng (eds.). Dordrecht, Holland: Kluwer.
  • QUOTE: The lexicon contains all those concepts to which speakers of a language attach a label (a word).

    If one examines the lexicalized concepts in relation to one another, it becomes clear that they differ in systematic ways that are characterizable in terms of similarities or contrasts. These consistent differentiations among concepts are what we call semantic relations.

    Relations are very real, though speakers may be unaware of them and may be unable to articulate them (as it the case with most metalinguistic knowledge). But there are situations when one must consciously confront semantic relations. Building a lexical resource presents such a situation.

    The structure of a lexical entry in a dictionary reflects the relatedness of words and concepts: The target word is usually defined in terms of related word and some differentiae.

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