Knowledge Extraction From Texts By Sintesi

In this paper we present SINTESI, a system for the knowledge extraction from Italian inputs, currently under development in our re,search centre. It is used on short descriptive diagnostic texts, in order to summarise their technical content and to build a knowledge base on faults. Often in these texts complex linguistic constructions like conjunctions, negations, ellipsis and anaphorae are involved. The presence of extragrammaticalities and of implicit knowledge is also frequent, especially because of the use of a sublanguage. SINTESI extracts the diagnostic information by performing a full text analysis; it is based on a semantics driven approach integrated by a general syntactic module and it is able to cope with the complexity of the (sub)language, maintaining both accuracy and robustness. Currently the system has been tested on about

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1992
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Fabio Ciravegna, Paolo Campia, Alberto Colognese
• Keywords: COLING 1992, COLING 2008, Complex Linguistic Constructions, Descriptive Diagnostic Texts, Knowledge Extraction