Experiments in Automated Lexicon Building for Text Searching

This paper describes experiments in the automatic construction of lexicons that would be useful in searching large document collections for text fragments that address a specific information need, such as an answer to a question.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Barry Schiffman, Kathleen McKeown
• Keywords: Automatic Construction, COLING 2000, COLING 2008, Large Document Collections, Text Fragments