Edited by Prof. Huang Chu-ren, Chair Professor of Applied Chinese Language Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities of PolyU, Ontology and the Lexicon, A Natural Language Processing Perspective is the first published book on ontology and lexicon interface launched by the Cambridge University Press as the newest addition to the series of “Studies in Natural Language Processing” (SNLP).

Subsequent to its publication, Prof. Huang assumes the role as the Chief Editor of SNLP series at the Cambridge University Press. This role allows him to facilitate and strengthen the research direction in the academic arena of computational linguistics, semantic technology and knowledge engineering.

Ontology and lexicon play a crucial role in the Semantic Web, especially in the new era of cross languages and cross knowledge processing development. The current volume depicts the relationship between ontologies and lexicon in a multidisciplinary perspective and focuses on the integration of lexical resources and semantic technologies. It is a self-contained reference book on linguistics that Master and PhD students in the discipline, researchers in natural language processing (NLP), computational linguists and psycholinguistics do not want to miss.