Bootstrapping sense characterizations of occurrences of polysemo

Details Bootstrapping sense characterizations of occurrences of polysemo Bootstrapping sense characterizations of occurrences of polysemo

1999-06-16

2000-06-27

Thomas, Joseph

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Linguistics

Dictionary building, modification, or prioritization

704 9, 707532, G06F 1728, G06F 1721, G06F 1730

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060817755

ABSTRACT:
The present invention is directed to characterizing the sense of an occurrence of a polysemous word in a representation of a dictionary. In a preferred embodiment, the representation of the dictionary is made up of a plurality of text segments containing word occurrences having a word sense characterization and word occurrences not having a word sense characterization. The embodiment first selects a plurality of the dictionary text segments that each contain a first word. The embodiment then identifies from among the selected text segments a first and a second occurrence of a second word. The identified second occurrence of the second word has a word sense characterization. The embodiment then attributes to the first occurrence of the second word sense characterization of the second occurrence of the second word.

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