A Bootstrapping Algorithm for Automatically Harvesting Semantic Relations

ICoS 2006 - Inference in Computational Semantics, Workshop Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 87-96

  Pennacchiotti, Marco ^a   Pantel, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFERENCE ENGINES; SEMANTICS;

BOOTSTRAPPING ALGORITHM; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; KNOWLEDGE EXPANSION; LEARN+; LEXICAL PATTERNS; SEMANTIC RELATIONS; STATE-OF-THE-ART SYSTEM; TWO-STATE; WEB BASED;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 38149074885     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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