Creation of a Semantic Lexicon by Traversal of a Machine Tractable Concept Taxonomy

Richard F.E. Sutcliffe, Donie O'Sullivan, Annette McElligott, Liam Sheahan

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Abstract

In order to develop computer systems which can process the content of natural language texts it is necessary to capture the meaning of words in a way which is robust and domain independent. In this article we discuss a particular kind of word representation based on sets of weighted semantic features. We describe how a lexicon of such patterns can be created automatically from a hierarchical concept ontology and evaluated using a psychometric method. Finally we summarise our findings in this research, giving the strengths and weaknesses of the advocated approach.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)33-42
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Quantitative Linguistics
Volume2
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 1995

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