The Role of Lexicons in Natural Language Processing

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-72

  Guthrie, Louise ^a,b   Pusteljovsky, James ^c   Wilks, Yorick ^d,e   Slator, Brian M ^f  

^a Lockheed Martin Text Exploitation G

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^c BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; STATISTICAL METHODS; TERMINOLOGY; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

COMPUTATIONAL LEXICOLOGY; LEXICONS; MACHINE READABLE DICTIONARIES; SEMANTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0029777092     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/234173.234204     Document Type: Article

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