... (Hearst,1992; Nakamura and Nagao, 1988) and natural lan-guage understanding in general.Among the above applications, natural language un-derstanding (NLU) is the most challenging from a sci-entific ... dictionary, butdecreased the accuracy. However, by combining bothresources, the accuracy was noticeably improved, and the coverage was comparable with that for the Nichi-gai dictionary.On the other ... other hand, in the case where random choicewas performed, the Nichigai dictionary and the Web- based encyclopedia were comparable in terms of both the coverage and accuracy. Additionally, by...