Applying a Semantic Interpreter to a Knowledge Extraction Task

Fernando Gomez, Carlos Segami

2005

Abstract

A system that extracts knowledge from encyclopedic texts is presented. The knowledge extraction component is based on a semantic interpreter of English based on an enhanced WordNet. The input to the knowledge extraction component is the output of the semantic interpreter. The extraction task was chosen in order to test the semantic interpreter. The following aspects are described: the definition of verb predicates and semantic roles, the organization of the inferences, an evaluation of the system, and a session with the system.

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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLUCS, (ICEIS 2005)
TI - Applying a Semantic Interpreter to a Knowledge Extraction Task
SN - 972-8865-23-6X
AU - Gomez F.
AU - Segami C.
PY - 2005
SP - 100
EP - 109
DO - 10.5220/0002569201000109


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Gomez F. and Segami C. (2005). Applying a Semantic Interpreter to a Knowledge Extraction Task . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLUCS, (ICEIS 2005) ISBN 972-8865-23-6X, pages 100-109. DOI: 10.5220/0002569201000109


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@conference{nlucs05,
author={Fernando Gomez and Carlos Segami},
title={Applying a Semantic Interpreter to a Knowledge Extraction Task},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLUCS, (ICEIS 2005)},
year={2005},
pages={100-109},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002569201000109},
isbn={972-8865-23-6X},
}