LEXIE: an experiment in lexical information extraction

Authors:
John J. Camilleri;Michael Rosner
Affiliations:
University of Malta, Msida, Malta;University of Malta, Msida, Malta
Venue:
AdaptLRTtoND '09 Proceedings of the Workshop on Adaptation of Language Resources and Technology to New Domains
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This document investigates the possibility of extracting lexical information automatically from the pages of a printed dictionary of Maltese. An experiment was carried out on a small sample of dictionary entries using hand-crafted rules to parse the entries. Although the results obtained were quite promising, a major problem turned out to errors introduced by OCR and the inconsistent style adopted for writing dictionary entries.