Corpus Based Extraction of Hypernyms in Terminological Thesaurus for Land Surveying Domain

• Authors: BAISA Vít; SUCHOMEL Vít
• Year of publication: 2015
• Type: Article in Proceedings
• Conference: Ninth Workshop on Recent Advances in Slavonic Natural Language Processing
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Informatics
• Web: https://nlp.fi.muni.cz/raslan/2015/paper09-Baisa_Suchomel.pdf
• Field: Linguistics
• Keywords: Sketch Engine; concordance; thesaurus; word sketch; language learning; English language; corpus
• Description: We present two methods of automatic hypernym extraction implemented within a dictionary editing and writing system for terminological thesaurus for land surveying domain: a specialised corpus based method and a term similarity approach. Challenges of both techniques are briefly discussed.

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