Comments on lexical analysis
George Armitage Miller · 1975
How lexical information should be represented in a computer program for processing natural language depends both on the goals that the program is intended to achieve and on the lexical information itself. Although programs can be imagined that might use lexical information in different ways, the information base that is exploited must be invariant over alternative programs. The present paper is concerned with the lexical information that must be represented, rather than with programming devices for representing it. First, an analysis scheme will be illustrated through