Corpus-based Semantic Lexicon Induction with Web-based Corroboration

NAACL HLT 2009 - Unsupervised and Minimally Supervised Learning of Lexical Semantics, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 18-26

  Igo, Sean P ^a   Riloff, Ellen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS;

BOOTSTRAPPING ALGORITHM; CO-OCCURRENCE STATISTICS; CORPUS-BASED; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; SEMANTIC CATEGORY; SEMANTIC DICTIONARIES; SEMANTIC LEXICON; TEXT CORPORA; TWO DOMAINS; WEB BASED;

STATISTICS;

EID: 83155166639     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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