Exploiting Strong Syntactic Heuristics and Co-Training to Learn Semantic Lexicons

William Phillips; Ellen Riloff

doi:10.3115/1118693.1118710

Exploiting Strong Syntactic Heuristics and Co-Training to Learn Semantic Lexicons

William Phillips
, Ellen Riloff

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Abstract

We present a bootstrapping method that uses strong syntactic heuristics to learn semantic lexicons. The three sources of information are appositives, compound nouns, and ISA clauses. We apply heuristics to these syntactic structures, embed them in a bootstrapping architecture, and combine them with co-training. Results on WSJ articles and a pharmaceutical corpus show that this method obtains high precision and finds a large number of terms.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	125-132
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3115/1118693.1118710
State	Published - 2002
Externally published	Yes
Event	7th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2002 - Philadelphia, United States Duration: Jul 6 2002 → Jul 7 2002

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Conference	7th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2002
Country/Territory	United States
City	Philadelphia
Period	7/6/02 → 7/7/02

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computational Theory and Mathematics
Computer Science Applications
Information Systems

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