• DocumentCode
    2664013
  • Title

    Thesauruses for natural language processing

  • Author

    Kilgarriff, A.

  • Author_Institution
    ITRI, Univ. of Brighton, England, UK
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    26-29 Oct. 2003
  • Firstpage
    5
  • Lastpage
    13
  • Abstract
    We argue that manual and automatic thesauruses are alternative resources for the same NLP tasks. This involves the radical step of interpreting manual thesauruses as classifications of words rather than word senses: the case for this is made. The range of roles for thesauruses within NLP is briefly presented and the WASPS thesaurus is introduced. Thesaurus evaluation is now becoming urgent. A range of evaluation strategies, all embedded within NLP tasks, is proposed.
  • Keywords
    natural languages; text analysis; thesauri; NLP; lexicographic analysis; natural language processing; thesaurus evaluation; word classification; word corpus; Automatic testing; Clustering algorithms; Distributed computing; Natural language processing; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Thesauri;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing, China
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7902-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NLPKE.2003.1275859
  • Filename
    1275859
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2664013