Automatically acquiring a semantic network of related concepts

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 19-28

  Szumlanski, Sean ^a   Gomez, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Common sense knowledge; Knowledge acquisition; Lexical semantics; Semantic networks; Semantic relatedness

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CONSTRUCTION; CO-OCCURRENCE; COMMONSENSE KNOWLEDGE; LEXICAL SEMANTICS; SEMANTIC NETWORK; SEMANTIC NETWORKS; SEMANTIC RELATEDNESS; WIKIPEDIA; WORDNET;

INFORMATION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 78651284486     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1871437.1871445     Document Type: Conference Paper

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