caa a22 4500 465752136 CHVBK 20180323111836.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00310040 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00310040 Palmer Martha Unisys Center for Advanced Information Technology, Paoli, Pennsylvania, USA aut Customizing verb definitions for specific semantic domains [Elektronische Daten] [Martha Palmer] We examine the functions performed by verb definitions in the process of semantic interpretation in PUNDIT, and the changes in the interpretation process that are caused by different uses of the same verb. We give detailed examples of how the interpretation process is affected by changes in thematic roles, selection restrictions and semantic predicates in the decompositions that constitute the verb definitions. In addition we introduce the notion of a change-of-state inference that must be drawn by reference resolution and argue that it plays an equally important function in capturing distinctions among verb senses. We demonstrate the role of the change-of-state inference with several different concrete representations of varying senses of the verb break. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 domain models nationallicence domain semantics nationallicence mapping rules nationallicence predicate environments nationallicence thematic roles nationallicence verb decompositions nationallicence Machine Translation Kluwer Academic Publishers 5/1(1990-03-01), 5-30 0922-6567 5:1<5 1990 5 10590 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00310040 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00310040 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Palmer Martha Unisys Center for Advanced Information Technology, Paoli, Pennsylvania, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Machine Translation Kluwer Academic Publishers 5/1(1990-03-01), 5-30 0922-6567 5:1<5 1990 5 10590 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer