Learning semantic constraints for the automatic discovery of part-whole relations

  • Authors:
  • Roxana Girju;Adriana Badulescu;Dan Moldovan

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Texas at Dallas;University of Texas at Dallas;University of Texas at Dallas

  • Venue:
  • NAACL '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The discovery of semantic relations from text becomes increasingly important for applications such as Question Answering, Information Extraction, Text Summarization, Text Understanding, and others. The semantic relations are detected by checking selectional constraints. This paper presents a method and its results for learning semantic constraints to detect part-whole relations. Twenty constraints were found. Their validity was tested on a 10,000 sentence corpus, and the targeted part-whole relations were detected with an accuracy of 83%.