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SCIE 1997: Information Extraction A Multidisciplinary Approach to an Emerging Information Technology pp 44–72Cite as

Lexical acquisition and information extraction

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  • Natural Language Processing
  • Machine Translation
  • Word Sense
  • Word Sense Disambiguation
  • Lexical Information

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    Basili, R., Pazienza, M.T. (1997). Lexical acquisition and information extraction. In: Pazienza, M.T. (eds) Information Extraction A Multidisciplinary Approach to an Emerging Information Technology. SCIE 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1299. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63438-X_4

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