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AAAI
1994
14 years 10 months ago
The Ups and Downs of Lexical Acquisition
We have implemented an incremental lexical acquisition mechanism that learns the meanings of previously unknown words from the context in which they appear, as a part of the proce...
Peter M. Hastings, Steven L. Lytinen
CONTEXT
2003
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Unpacking Meaning from Words: A Context-Centered Approach to Computational Lexicon Design
Abstract. The knowledge representation tradition in computational lexicon design represents words as static encapsulations of purely lexical knowledge. We suggest that this view po...
Hugo Liu
SIGLEX
1991
15 years 29 days ago
Presuppositions and Default Reasoning: A Study in Lexical Pragmatics
Explaining how the meaning of words relate to the meaning of the utterance in which they are used is of utmost importance. The most common approaches view the meaning of an uttera...
Robert E. Mercer
ACSC
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
A semantic approach to boost passage retrieval effectiveness for question answering
In the current state of the rapid growth of information resources and the huge number of requests submitted by users to existing information retrieval systems; recently, Question ...
Bahadorreza Ofoghi, John Yearwood, Ranadhir Ghosh
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COLING
2010
14 years 4 months ago
A Semantic Network Approach to Measuring Relatedness
Humans are very good at judging the strength of relationships between two terms, a task which, if it can be automated, would be useful in a range of applications. Systems attempti...
Brian Harrington