Automatic indexing and Government-Binding Theory

  • Authors:
  • Robert J. Kuhns

  • Affiliations:
  • Brookline, MA

  • Venue:
  • COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

This project note describes a system that receives, parses, indexes, and routes news reports. The core of this automatic indexer is a parser based on Government-Binding Theory which derives thematic and binding relationships of arguments of the sentences of stories. These syntactic structures are interpreted by a semantic processor which is linked to conceptual representations of terms from a controlled indexing vocabulary. As a result, the system is capable of indexing news with respect to a large set of terms that denote the content of the articles.