Hirst Abstract

• Hirst, Graeme.
  ``Near-synonymy and the structure of lexical knowledge.''
  Working notes, AAAI Symposium on Representation and Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge: Polysemy, Ambiguity, and Generativity, Stanford University, March 1995, 51--56.

The need to deal adequately with near-synonymy in tasks such as lexical choice is the basis for two alternatives to conventional models of lexical knowledge: a Saussurean approach and a prototype-theory approach. I discuss these approaches, showing that the latter is troublesome but the former is likely to succeed, and also discuss the consequences for computational models of lexical knowledge.

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