Title :
Thesauruses for natural language processing
Author_Institution :
ITRI, Univ. of Brighton, England, UK
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;
Conference_Titel :
Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing, China
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7902-0
DOI :
10.1109/NLPKE.2003.1275859
