A tractable machine dictionary as a resource for computational semantics
Computational lexicography for natural language processing
The Structure of the Merriam-Webster Pocket Dictionary
The Structure of the Merriam-Webster Pocket Dictionary
Lexical semantics and preference semantics analysis
Lexical semantics and preference semantics analysis
Semantically significant patterns in dictionary definitions
ACL '86 Proceedings of the 24th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Extracting semantic hierarchies from a large on-line dictionary
ACL '85 Proceedings of the 23rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Extraction of semantic information from an ordinary English dictionary and its evaluation
COLING '88 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Machine tractable dictionaries as tools and resources for natural language processing
COLING '88 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
SIGIR '91 Proceedings of the 14th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Lexical semantic techniques for corpus analysis
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on using large corpora: II
Topical clustering of MRD senses based on information retrieval techniques
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on word sense disambiguation
A definition and short history of Language Engineering
Natural Language Engineering
A lexicon of distributed noun representations constructed by taxonomic traversal
COLING '94 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
The automatic creation of lexical entries for a multilingual MT system
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Genus disambiguation: a study in weighted preference
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 4
Acquisition of OWL DL Axioms from Lexical Resources
ESWC '07 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on The Semantic Web: Research and Applications
Interpreting comparative constructions in biomedical text
BioNLP '07 Proceedings of the Workshop on BioNLP 2007: Biological, Translational, and Clinical Language Processing
Robust ontology acquisition from machine-readable dictionaries
IJCAI'05 Proceedings of the 19th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
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We describe a technique for automatically constructing a taxonomy of word senses from a machine readable dictionary. Previous taxonomies developed from dictionaries have two properties in common. First, they are based on a somewhat loosely defined notion of the IS-A relation. Second, they require human intervention to identify the sense of the genus term being used. We believe that for taxonomies of this type to serve a useful role in subsequent natural language processing tasks, the taxonomy must be based on a consistent use of the IS-A relation which allows inheritance and transitivity. We show that hierarchies of this type can be automatically constructed, by using the semantic category codes and the subject codes of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE) to disambiguate the genus terms in noun definitions. In addition, we discuss how certain genus terms give rise to other semantic relations between definitions.