Extracting Human Spanish Nouns

In this article we present a simple method to extract Spanish nouns with the linguistic property of “human” animacy. We describe a non-supervised method based on lexical patterns and on a person name list enlarged from a collection of newspaper texts. Results were obtained from the Web filters and estimation methods are proposed to validate them.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: TSD
• Authors: Sofía N. Galicia-Haro, Alexander F. Gelbukh
• Keywords: Linguistic Property, Signal Processing, Simple Method, Spanish Nouns, TSD 2010