Bootstrapping has a tendency, called semantic drift, to select instances unrelated to the seed instances as the iteration proceeds. We demonstrate the semantic drift of bootstrapp...
The real di culty in development of practical NLP systems comes from the fact that we do not have e ective means for gathering \knowledge". In this paper, we propose an algor...
Satoshi Sekine, Jeremy J. Carroll, Sophia Ananiado...
There are many possible different semantic relationships between nominals. Classification of such relationships is an important and difficult task (for example, the well known nou...
Abstract. In the core of every information integration and data exchange effort lies the ability to identify whether two pieces of information refer to the same real world entity. ...
We describe a new approach to disambiguating semantic frames evoked by lexical predicates previously unseen in a lexicon or annotated data. Our approach makes use of large amounts...