[...] a theory of computational lexical semantics needs to make reference to four levels of representations: [...] "Lexical inheritance structure" determines the ways in which a word is related to other words in the lexicon. In addition to providing information about the organization of a lexical knowledge base, this level of word meaning provides an explicit link to general word (commonsense) knowledge [Quillian, M., 1975, Semantic memory, in Minsky, M., ed, “Semantic Information Processing”, American Elsevier, New York; Woods, W., 1975, What’s in a link: foundations of semantics networks, in Bobrow, D. G. And Collins, A., eds., “Representation and Understanding: Studies in Cognitive Science”, Academic Press, New York; Touretzky, D. S., 1986, “Tha mathematics of Inheritance Systems”, Morgan Kaufmann, Los Altos, CA].
- Pustejovsky & Boguraev (2004), a pag.342