In this paper, we work on extending a Chinese thesaurus with words distinctly used in various Chinese communities. The acquisition and classification of such region-specific lexic...
Most approaches to event extraction focus on mentions anchored in verbs. However, many mentions of events surface as noun phrases. Detecting them can increase the recall of event ...
Cassandre Creswell, Matthew J. Beal, John Chen, Th...
Collocational analysis is the basis of many studies on lexical acquisition. Collocations are extracted from corpora using more or less shallow processing techniques, that span from...
Roberto Basili, Maria Teresa Pazienza, Paola Velar...
This paper presents a linguistic framework for developing a formal knowledge acquisition method. The framework is intended to empower domain experts to specify information require...
Ghang Lee, Charles M. Eastman, Rafael Sacks, Shamk...
We present an approach to classification of biomedical terms based on the information acquired automatically from the corpus of relevant literature. The learning phase consists of...