Ji D., Xiao G. (Eds.). Chinese lexical semantics

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. — 851 p. — ISBN: 978-3-642-36336-8, e-ISBN: 978-3-642-36337-5.13thWorkshop, CLSW 2012, Wuhan, China, July 6-8, 2012, Revised Selected Papers.Since its initiation in 2000, the Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW) has become one of the most important forums for Chinese lexical semantics and related fields, including theoretical linguistics, computational lexicography, and natural language processing applications. So far, the series has been held in different cities in the Asia-Pacific region.The 13th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW 2012) was held in Wuhan, China, in July 2012. This workshop was organized by Wuhan University (China). Topics of interest involved theoretical, computational, and other related issues of lexical semantics research.The Program Committee received a total of 169 papers representing work by academics and practitioners, and we would like to thank all of them for their work. The committee used a double-blind reviewing process and as a result 67 articles (39.6%) were accepted as full papers and 17 (10%) as short (poster) papers.We would like to thank the invited and plenary speakers: Yukio Tono (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), on “Lexical Semantics and Pedagogical Lexicography”; Lee Jong-Hyeok (Pohang University of Science and Engineering), on “Lexical Semantics in Machine Translation”; Guodong Zhou (Soochow University), on “Semantic Analysis in NLP”; Guozheng Xiao (Wuhan University), on “Case and Corpus Study of Lexical Concepts.”.The success of this conference was only possible with the support of the Program Committee members. We would like to acknowledge Yanxiang He (Wuhan University) and Benjamin Tsou (Hong Kong Institute of Education), the Conference Chairs, for their generous support. We are also most grateful to Chu-Ren Huang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and the Advisory Committee for their help in promoting the workshop.We are also grateful to the paper reviewers who devoted their time and energy in reviewing the papers selected for the proceedings.