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  <Title>Enjoy the Paper: Lexical Semantics via Lexicology</Title>
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5. Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have attempted to motivate an approach to iexical semantics which enhances the representation of nouns in terms of their qualia structure. We have shown that incorporating this information into a default inheritance hierarchy and enriching the notion of compositionality to allow for type-shifting of NPs allows for a computationally tractable and plausible account of logical metonymy. We have, however, said very little about what qualia structure is. Whilst Pustejovsky (1989) relates this idea back to Aristotle's four causes, we think that for the purposes of the computational implementation described above we need only assume that qualia structure constitutes (part of) the lexical information associated with a word sense, in the sense that it is the information which is most accessible given the organisation of the inheritance network. One could imagine that other more general or 'encyclopedic' information concerning concepts would simply be less accessible or 'dose' in terms of the same network. The preliminary work with MRDs/corpora suggests that both types are recoverable semi-automatically.</Paragraph>
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