computational lexicography, parsing, word sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling, information extraction, question-answering, and machine translation (Swier and Stevenson, 2004;Dang, 2004;Shi and Mihalcea, 2005;Kipper et al., 2008;Zapirain et al., 2008).
useful are classes which capture generalizations over a range of (cross-)linguistic properties, such as the ones proposed by Levin (1993).