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Representing Lexical Knowledge

Lexical knowledge encompasses all the information that is known about words and the relationships among them. Outside of strictly linguistic knowledge such as phonology, morphology, and grammatical categories, this includes conceptual knowledge, such as on various ontological categories, and pragmatic knowledge, such as conventional usages for certain words. Somewhere in between lies semantic information, which will be the emphasis here.