%0 Conference Proceedings %T Simple-Clips ongoing research: more information with less data by implementing inheritance %A Del Gratta, Riccardo %A Ruimy, Nilda %A Toral, Antonio %Y Calzolari, Nicoletta %Y Choukri, Khalid %Y Maegaard, Bente %Y Mariani, Joseph %Y Odijk, Jan %Y Piperidis, Stelios %Y Tapias, Daniel %S Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’08) %D 2008 %8 May %I European Language Resources Association (ELRA) %C Marrakech, Morocco %F del-gratta-etal-2008-simple %X This paper presents the application of inheritance to the formal taxonomy (is-a) of a semantically rich Language Resource based on the Generative Lexicon theory, SIMPLE-CLIPS. The aim is to lighten the representation of its semantic layer by reducing the number of encoded relations. A prediction calculation on the impact of introducing inheritance regarding space occupancy is carried out, yielding a significant space reduction of 22%. This is corroborated by its actual application, which reduces the number of explicitly encoded relations in this lexicon by 18.4%. Later on, we study the issues that inheritance poses to the Language Resources, and discuss sensitive solutions to tackle each of them, including examples. Finally, we present a discussion on the application of inheritance, from which two side effect advantages arise: consistency enhancement and inference capabilities. %U http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/598_paper.pdf