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

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

doi:10.1080/09296179508590033

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

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

University of Limerick

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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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	33-42
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Quantitative Linguistics
Volume	2
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09296179508590033
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 1995

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