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  <Title>The Autonomy of Shallow Lexical Knowledge</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> My work has involved both the development of a theory of lexical semantic representation and the implementation of a computational text understanding system which uses this lexicon to interpret English text (Dahlgren, 1976, Dahlgren, 1988, Dahlgren, McDowell and Stabler, 1989). The question posed by the workshop is a theoretical one: is there any justification for distinguishing between lexical semantics and world knowledge? My affirmative answer is based upon both theory and practice. Section I addresses the theoretical issues and makes a claim, and Section II supports the claim with results from computational linguistics. The experience of developing a wide-coverage natural language understanding system suggests a methodology for distinguishing between lexical knowledge and knowledge in general.</Paragraph>
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