Concept clustering and knowledge integration from a children's dictionary

  • Authors:
  • Caroline Barrière;Fred Popowich

  • Affiliations:
  • Simon Fraser University, Burnby, BC, Canada;Simon Fraser University, Burnby, BC, Canada

  • Venue:
  • COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

Knowledge structure called Concept Clustering Knowledge Graphs (CCKGs) are introduced along with a process for their construction from a machine readable dictionary. CCKGs contain multiple concepts interrelated through multiple semantic relations together forming a semantic cluster represented by a conceptual graph. The knowledge acquisition is performed on a children's first dictionary. The concepts involved are general and typical of a daily life conversation. A collection of conceptual clusters together can form the basis of a lexical knowledge base, where each CCKG contains a limited number of highly connected words giving useful information about a particular domain or situation.