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How Many Lexical-semantic Relations are Necessary?

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In lexical semantics several meta-linguistic relations are used to model lexical structure. Their number and motivation vary from researcher to researcher. This article tries to show that one relation suffices to model the concept structure of the lexicon making use of intensional logic.

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  1. Fachbereich II, Linguistische Datenverarbeitung, Universität Trier, 54286, Trier, Germany

    Dariusch Bagheri

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  1. Fachbereich Statistik, Universität Dortmund, 44221, Dortmund

    Claus Weihs

  2. Institut für Entscheidungstheorie und Unternehmensforschung, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), 76128, Karlsruhe

    Wolfgang Gaul

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Bagheri, D. (2005). How Many Lexical-semantic Relations are Necessary?. In: Weihs, C., Gaul, W. (eds) Classification — the Ubiquitous Challenge. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28084-7_56

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