Building a semantic lexicon of English nouns via bootstrapping

  • Authors:
  • Ting Qian;Benjamin Van Durme;Lenhart Schubert

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Rochester, Rochester, NY;University of Rochester, Rochester, NY;University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

  • Venue:
  • SRWS '09 Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Student Research Workshop and Doctoral Consortium
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We describe the use of a weakly supervised bootstrapping algorithm in discovering contrasting semantic categories from a source lexicon with little training data. Our method primarily exploits the patterns in sentential contexts where different categories of words may appear. Experimental results are presented showing that such automatically categorized terms tend to agree with human judgements.