Robust ontology acquisition from machine-readable dictionaries

Robust ontology acquisition from machine-readable dictionaries

In this paper, we outline the development of a system that automatically constructs ontologies by extracting knowledge from dictionary definition sentences using Robust Minimal Recursion Semantics...

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Main Authors:	Flickinger, Dan., Nichols, Eric., Bond, Francis.
Other Authors:	School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2011
Subjects:	DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Computational linguistics
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92079 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7277
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Institution:	Nanyang Technological University
Language:	English

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Summary:	In this paper, we outline the development of a system that automatically constructs ontologies by extracting knowledge from dictionary definition sentences using Robust Minimal Recursion Semantics (RMRS), a semantic formalism that permits underspecification. We show that by combining deep and shallow parsing resources through the common formalism of RMRS, we can extract ontological relations in greater quality and quantity. Our approach also has the advantages of requiring a very small amount of rules and being easily adaptable to any language with RMRS resources.