Conceptual structures: information processing in mind and machine
Conceptual structures: information processing in mind and machine
Conceptual clustering and its relation to numerical taxonomy
Artificial intelligence and statistics
Conceptual graphs for the analysis and generation of sentences
IBM Journal of Research and Development
Tools and methods for computational lexicology
Computational Linguistics - Special issue of the lexicon
A formal lexicon in the Meaning-Text Theory: (or how to do lexica with words)
Computational Linguistics - Special issue of the lexicon
The subworld concept lexicon and the lexicon management system
Computational Linguistics - Special issue of the lexicon
A system for text analysis and lexical knowledge acquisition
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Models of incremental concept formation
Artificial Intelligence
A theory of the origins of human knowledge
Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge representation for commonsense reasoning with text
Computational Linguistics
Relational models of the lexicon
Relational models of the lexicon
Using a Semantic Knowledge Base to Support a Natural Language Interface to a Text Database
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enity-Relationship Approach: A Bridge to the User
A generative grammar approach for the morphologic and morphosyntactic analysis of Italian
EACL '87 Proceedings of the third conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Automatic acquisition of the lexical semantics of verbs from sentence frames
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Computer aided interpretation of lexical cooccurrences
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Why human translators still sleep in peace?: (four engineering and linguistic gaps in NLP)
COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Generalizing case frames using a thesaurus and the MDL principle
Computational Linguistics
Systematic construction of a versatile case system
Natural Language Engineering
Robust parsing of natural language descriptions expressed in telegraphic style
ANLC '92 Proceedings of the third conference on Applied natural language processing
A text understander that learns
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
An empirical study on thematic knowledge acquisition based on syntactic clues and heuristics
ACL '93 Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Generalizing automatically generated selectional patterns
COLING '94 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
A corpus-based learning technique for building a self-extensible parser
COLING '94 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Acquisition of selectional patterns
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Interpretation of nominal compounds: combining domain-independent and domain-specific information
COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Smoothing of automatically generated selectional constraints
HLT '93 Proceedings of the workshop on Human Language Technology
Comparing verb synonym resources for Portuguese
PROPOR'10 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language
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Natural language processing will not be able to compete with traditional information retrieval unless high-coverage techniques are developed. It is commonly agreed that a poor encoding of the semantic lexicon is the bottleneck of many existing systems. A hand encoding of semantic knowledge on an extensive basis is not realistic; hence, it is important to devise methods by which such knowledge can be acquired in part or entirely by a computer. But what type of semantic knowledge could be automatically learned, from which sources, and by what methods? This paper explores the above issues and proposes an algorithm to learn syncategorematic concepts from text exemplars. What is learned about a concept is not its defining features, such as kinship, but rather its patterns of use.The knowledge acquisition method is based on learning by observations; observations are examples of word co-occurrences (collocations) in a large corpus, detected by a morphosyntactic analyzer. A semantic bias is used to associate collocations with the appropriate meaning relation, if one exists. Based upon single or multiple examples, the acquired knowledge is then generalized to create semantic rules on concept uses.Interactive human intervention is required in the training phase, when the bias is defined and refined. The duration of this phase depends upon the semantic closure of the sublanguage on which the experiment is carried out. After training, final approval by a linguist is still needed for the acquired semantic rules. At the current stage of experimentation of this system, it is unclear whether and when human supervision could be further reduced.