advantages of lexicon - ontology bridging

[David]

This is my first attempt to provide some input for the 'Ontology based
solutions using Natural Language Processing' group:

A bulleted list of the advantages I see in using a seperate ontology &
lexicon, but bridged to each other by means of crossreferences. If
anyone wishes to expand or comment on this, please do so.

NLP: advantages of lexicon - ontology bridging
*synonym identification. (task for the ontology, the most basic
advantage).
*homonym disambiguation (task for the ontology, wordclass can assist
in disambiguation: lexicon-ontology bridge).
*reference resolution (can be done (to a certain level) purely
syntactical, but might benefit from semantics as well).
*precoordinate recognition (lexicon: identification of relatedness,
ontology: content through full defs)
*translation of syntax to semantics (lexicon: identification of POS &
relatedness, ontology: semantic identification & relating: knowledge
discovery)
Having two independent data models (lexicon & ontology) (only sharing
some pointers to each other) is vital to this.

David Decraene
Language & computing