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Automatic Construction of a Dynamic Thesaurus for Proper Names

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Computational Linguistics

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 458))

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Proper names outnumber all other word classes, but they are underrepresented in dictionaries and in electronic resources. We propose an automatic method of associating a stand-alone proper name repository with a wordnet. A variety of sources of lexical-semantic knowledge can be harnessed into this task. Semantic proximity between a proper name and a synset can be based on pattern-driven search and on distributional analyses in large corpora. The sources are heterogeneous and the measures of semantic relatedness vary widely. We propose a flexible method, an adaptation of the algorithm of Activation Area Attachment, which treats each type of sources slightly differently. We reach 80% precision in linking proper names with places in a wordnet even if the targets are highly polysemous.

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  1. Institute of Informatics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Roman Kurc & Maciej Piasecki

  2. School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Stan Szpakowicz

  3. Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Stan Szpakowicz

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  1. , Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Ordona 21, Warsaw, 01-237, Poland

    Adam Przepiórkowski

  2. , Institute of Informatics, Wroclaw University of Technology, ul. Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, Wroclaw, 50-370, Poland

    Maciej Piasecki

  3. , Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Scie, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Umultowska 87, Poznań, 61-614, Poland

    Krzysztof Jassem

  4. TiP Sp. z o. o., Francuska 35/37, Katowice, 40-027, Poland

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Kurc, R., Piasecki, M., Szpakowicz, S. (2013). Automatic Construction of a Dynamic Thesaurus for Proper Names. In: Przepiórkowski, A., Piasecki, M., Jassem, K., Fuglewicz, P. (eds) Computational Linguistics. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 458. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34399-5_4

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