<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . "Constructing semantic representations using the MDL principle"^^ . "Words receive a significant part of their meaning from use in communicative settings. The formal mechanisms of lexical\nacquisition, as they apply to rich situational settings,may\nalso be studied in the limited case of corpora of written texts. This work constitutes an approach to deriving semantic representations for lexemes using techniques from \nstatistical induction. In particular, a number of variations on the MDL principle were applied to selected sample sets and their influence on emerging theories of word meaning explored. We found that by changing the definition of description length for data and theory - which is equivalent to different encodings of data and theory - we may customize \nthe emerging theory, augmenting and altering frequency effects. Also the influence of the stochastic properties of \nthe size of the theory has been demonstrated. The results consist in a set of distributional properties of lexemes, which reflect cognitive distinctions in the meaning of words."^^ . "1997" . . . . . . . . . . . "Niels"^^ . "Fertig"^^ . "Niels Fertig"^^ . . "Gabriele"^^ . "Scheler"^^ . "Gabriele Scheler"^^ . . . . . . "Constructing semantic representations using the MDL principle (Postscript)"^^ . . . . . . "fertig-scheler.ps"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #1484 \n\nConstructing semantic representations using the MDL principle\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Language" . . . "Machine Learning" . . . "Statistical Models" . .