Constructing conceptual graphs using linguistic resources

  • Authors:
  • Svetlana Hensman;John Dunnion

  • Affiliations:
  • Intelligent Information Retrieval Group, Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland;Intelligent Information Retrieval Group, Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • TELE-INFO'05 Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS International Conference on Telecommunications and Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

With the huge number of documents becoming available in electronic form, finding relevant information in a large corpus is becoming an increasingly important, but difficult, task. We believe that semantic processing is required in order to achieve more accurate information retrieval. This paper describes a framework for the creation of semantic markup and its insertion into XML documents. We describe the semi-automatic construction of conceptual graph representations of texts using a combination of existing linguistic resources, such as VerbNet and WordNet. The system we have developed uses a two-step approach, firstly identifying the semantic rôles in a sentence, and then using these rôles, together with semi-automatically compiled domain-specific knowledge, to construct the conceptual graph representation.