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Lexical definition specifies the meaning of an expression by stating it in terms of other expressions whose meaning is assumed to be known (e.g., a ewe is a female sheep).

The lexical definition of risk is a "possibility of loss or injury", a "peril", or a "dangerous element or factor".

A transformation of XML schema into OWL models is possible,121 and with lexical analysis of definitions for terms, the semantic similarity can be quantified.

Hurley [ 8] differentiates, among others, between stipulative, lexical and precising definitions.

Should we posit a lexical ambiguity with two different definitions for 'gavagai'?

Polysemous predicates, by definition, associate a single lexical form with dual or multiple senses.

Even the definition of word and lexical item or the distinction between lexical/content words and grammatical/function words are areas which are not yet fully explained in terms of lexical representation.

Alignments were performed for every HPO term against each MP or ZP term using a merged OWL file of Phenotypic Quality Ontology, UBERON, ZP, MP plus logical definitions, HPO plus logical definitions and the HPO and MP lexical matching file.

Definitions may be classified as lexical, ostensive, and stipulative.

Less efficient processing was observed when participants had to focus lexical categorization processes on pseudowords, which are by definition unfamiliar: no preparation was possible when participants had to focus on these stimuli which do not match any entry in memory.

We then convert lexicalized trees into dependencies between lexical heads.