... Folheador, an onlineservice for browsingthrough Portuguese semantic relations, acquired from differ-ent sources. Besides facilitating the ex-ploration of Portuguese lexical knowledgebases, ... April 23 - 27 2012.c2012 Association for Computational LinguisticsFolheador: browsingthroughPortuguesesemantic relations Hugo Gonc¸alo OliveiraCISUC, University of CoimbraPortugalhroliv@dei.uc.ptHernani ... LKBs, in addition toinformation on words and semantic relations, it isimportant that these interfaces provide usage ex-amples where semanticrelations hold, or at leastwhere related words...
... automatically ontologiz-ing (attaching) semanticrelations into WordNet. We present an empirical evaluation on the task of attaching part-of and causation relations, showing an improvement on ... two algorithms for ontologizing binary semantic relations into WordNet and we present empirical results on the task of attaching part-of and causa-tion relations. Formally, given an instance ... complex lexi-cal structures like binary semantic relations, the paper focused only on attaching terms. Basili (2000) proposed an unsupervised method to infer semantic classes (WordNet syn-sets)...
... representation of semantic relations using recursive lexico-syntactic patterns.• An automatic procedure to learn the se-lectional restrictions (arguments and super-types) of semanticrelations from ... ar-guments and the supertypes of a diverseset of semanticrelations from the Web.We evaluate the performance of our algo-rithm on multiple semanticrelations ex-pressed using “verb”, “noun”, and ... de-notes some (unspecified) semantic relation whilethe first and third denote the learned arguments ofthis relation. But TextRunner does not seek spe-cific semantic relations, and does not re-use...
... on extract-ing semanticrelations between entities, such as entailments (Szpektor et al. 2004), is-a (Ravi-chandran and Hovy 2002), part-of (Girju et al. 2006), and other relations. The ... various seman-tic relations exemplified by a given small set of seed instances. We consider the standard is-a and part-of relations as well as the following more specific relations: • succession: ... auto-matically harvesting shallow semantic resources. With seemingly endless amounts of textual data at our disposal, we have a tremendous opportu-nity to automatically grow semantic term banks and...
... of se-mantic relations to decide the semantic relation forNCs.3 SemanticRelations in CompoundNounsWhile there has been wide recognition of the needfor a system of semanticrelations with ... of semantic relations. Based on the pioneering work on Levi (1979)and Finin (1980), there have been efforts in com-putational linguistics to arrive at largely task-specific sets of semantic relations, ... of semantic relations. First we map verb tokens in sentential con-texts to a fixed set of seed verbs usingWordNet::Similarity and Moby’sThesaurus. We then match the sentenceswith semantic relations...
... particular semantic rela- tion like hypernymy or purpose linking the two input words, e.g., "return" is a hypernym of "forehand." • Many heuristics look for particular semantic ... and Retrieval with Semantic Background Knowl- edge" Ph.D thesis, MIT Media Laboratory. 4. Chakravarthy, Anil S. and Haase, Kenneth B. 1995. "NetSerf: Using Semantic Knowledge to ... Text Retrieval," in Pro- ceedings of SIGIR'93. 295 Sense Disambiguation Using Semantic Relations and Adjacency Information Anil S. Chakravarthy MIT Media Laboratory 20 Ames Street...
... promisingdirection is to investigate relational models for un-supervised semantic analysis of noun compounds.The range of semanticrelations that can be ex-pressed by compounds is the subject of some ... isevidence that the same semantic relation tends tohold between the members of each pair. A re-lational distributional hypothesis therefore statesthat two word pairs are semantically similar if ... including SAT verbal analogy tests,synonym/antonym classification and distinctionbetween semantically similar and semantically as-sociated words. Our future research plans includeinvestigating the...
... syntactic features from Section 4. Semantic The semantic features from Section 4.All Both syntactic and semantic features.All+Tmp (Causals Only) Syntactic and semantic features, plus the gold-standard ... of paralleltemporal and causal relations and exploring machinelearning approaches to extracting these relations. 2 Related WorkMuch recent work on temporal relations revolvedaround the TimeBank ... showed that temporal relations between a verb and a complement clausecould be identified with accuracies of nearly 90%.Recent work on causal relations has also foundthat arbitrary relations in text...