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their work but these are still kept separate from the traditional lexicographic stuff and thus fail to
inform it. Similarly, the advantages that computers provide for lexicographers are typically reviewed
by lexicographers with regard to their purely technical aspects rather than in connection
with the making of entries (see, for instance, Landau 1984: 272-293).
Unfortunately, traditional lexicography and linguistics semantics have yet to find a way for productive
synthesis. The massive interest in computational lexicology and lexicography in the 1980s
hinted at the start at the possibility of such a synthesis, especially in the light of the emergence of
dictionaries, created by traditional lexicography, in machine-readable form and of the early hopes
of adapting these dictionaries for computer use in a relatively easy and feasible way (Amsler 1982,
1984a,b; Ahlswede et al. 1985; Boguraev et al.1987; Boguraev and Briscoe 1987; Calzolari 1984;
Chodorow et al. 1985; Cullingford and Graves 1987; Fox et al. 1986; Markowitz et al. 1986; Slator
and Wilks 1987; Slocum and Morgan 1986; Walker 1984, 1987; Walker and Amsler 1986; Wilks
et al. 1987). But most recent work in computational lexical semantics stems clearly from the linguistic
(and logical) semantic scholarship rather than from the traditional lexicographic approach
(see, for instance, Boguraev and Briscoe 1989; Briscoe et al. 1990, 1993; Carlson and Nirenburg
1990; Copestake 1990, 1992; Meyer et al. 1990; Levin 1991, 1992; Pustejovsky 1991, 1993;
Ageno et al. 1992; Nirenburg and Levin 1992; Nunberg and Zaenen 1992; Onyshkevych and
Nirenburg 1992, 1994; Ostler and Atkins 1992; Pustejovsky and Bergler 1992; Sanfilippo and
Poznanski 1992; Sanfilippo et al. 1992; Dorr 1993; Farwell et al. 1993; Knight 1993; Raskin et al.
1994a,b; Levin and Nirenburg 1994; Nirenburg et al. 1994; Saint-Dizier and Viegas 1995).
Our methodology for creating lexical entries for adjectives is illustrated in (98).
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