A tool kit for lexicon building

  • Authors:
  • Thomas E. Ahlswede

  • Affiliations:
  • Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois

  • Venue:
  • ACL '85 Proceedings of the 23rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1985

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper describes a set of interactive routines that can be used to create, maintain, and update a computer lexicon. The routines are available to the user as a set of commands resembling a simple operating system. The lexicon produced by this system is based on lexical-semantic relations, but is compatible with a variety of other models of lexicon structure. The lexicon builder is suitable for the generation of moderate-sized vocabularies and has been used to construct a lexicon for a small medical expert system. A future version of the lexicon builder will create a much larger lexicon by parsing definitions from machine-readable dictionaries.