Lexical features have proven indispensable for the good performance of most applications dealing with language.
more generalized characterizations of the lexicon (Brown et al., 1992;Wilson et al., 2005;Feng et al., 2013;Ji and Lin, 2009;Resnik, 1995) have become key in overcoming issues with lexical sparseness and in providing practical semantic information for natural language processing systems (Miller et al., 2004;Rutherford and Xue, 2014;Velikovich et al., 2010;Dodge et al., 2012).