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  <Title>mentals. Center for the Study of Language and Information</Title>
  <Section position="4" start_page="166" end_page="166" type="concl">
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4 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have shown that horizontal redundancy is inherent to a lexicon consisting of descriptions of fully formed objects. To eliminate horizontal redundancy, direct relations between descriptions of fully formed objects must be defined externally to the Typed Mulitple Inheritance Network or unintuitive solutions must be pursued. Available iraplementations of horizontal relations fail to satisfy the reasons that dictate their implementation: the on-need generation of lexical entries and efficient parsing. Alternatively, we proposed that lexical entries are descriptions of objects which allow for further contextual specification of their properties on the basis of clearly defined constraints. We have shown that this is an easily implementable proposal even in environments with lean inference power and expressivity because it relies on very basic machinery which is available for independent reasons.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> This approach can be adopted whenever inforrua.tion can be distributed among independent surface strings. Under the light of this proposal, many of the phenomena which have been argued in (Pof lard &amp; Sag 1987) to justify the horizontal relatedness approach can be viewed as different 'interpretations' of a 'core' lexical entry according to well-specified types of 'context'. tlowever, it must be noted here that this is not always a simple task.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Roughly speaking, the less specific the contextual information is the more inference power and expressivity is needed to retain the underspecification approach.</Paragraph>
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