A knowledge-rich approach to identifying semantic relations between nominals

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 589-610

  Girju, R ^a   Beamer, B ^a   Rozovskaya, A ^a   Fister, A ^a   Bhat, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Lexical semantics; Machine learning; Natural language processing; Semantic relations

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; ENGLISH SENTENCES; F-MEASURE; KNOWLEDGE SOURCES; LEARNING CURVES; LEXICAL SEMANTICS; MACHINE-LEARNING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTIC FEATURES; SEMANTIC RELATIONS; TASK DIFFICULTY; UPPER BOUND; WORDNET;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 77955424118     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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