TermPedia for interactive document enrichment using technical terms to provide relevant contextual information

Author

Olango, Proscovia ; Kramer, Gerwin ; Bouma, Gosse

fYear

2009

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

265

Lastpage

272

Abstract

TermPedia is a human language technology (HLT) application for document enrichment that automatically provides definitions for technical terms (TTs). A technical term (TT) may hinder document comprehension if it is introduced without any definition or explanation. In some cases when a term is defined, the definition may contain additional technical terms that instigate a similar problem. This is why we investigated a possibility of providing contextually relevant information for the technical term by linking it to an encyclopedia. In this way, additional information relating to the technical terms shall be readily available and hopefully make documents more comprehensible.

Keywords

encyclopaedias; interactive systems; linguistics; TermPedia; document comprehension; encyclopedia linking; human language technology application; interactive document enrichment; relevant contextual information; technical term; Computer science; Encyclopedias; Humans; Information resources; Information technology; Joining processes; Speech synthesis; Switches; Vocabulary; Wikipedia;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and Information Technology, 2009. IMCSIT '09. International Multiconference on

Conference_Location

Mragowo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5314-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMCSIT.2009.5352716

Filename

5352716