Effective use of natural language processing techniques for automatic conflation of multi-word terms: The role of derivational morphology, part of speech tagging, and shallow parsing

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn 31, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 1997, Pages 148-155

  Tzoukermann, Evelyne ^a   Klavans, Judith L ^b   Jacquemin, Christian ^c  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE EN COMMUNICATIONS ET CYBERNÉTIQUE DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

AUTOMATIC CONFLATION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030690721     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/278459.258554     Document Type: Article

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