Demetriou, G and Atwell, ES (2001) A domain-independent semantic tagger for the study of meaning associations in English text. In: Bunt, H, Sluis, IVD and Thijsse, E, (eds.) Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-4). Fourth International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-4), 10-12 Jan 2001, Tilburg, Netherlands. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group in Computational Semantics (SIGSEM) , 67 - 80.
Abstract
A comparison of semantic tagging with syntactic Part-of-Speech tagging leads us to propose that a domain-independent semantic tagger for English corpora should not aim to annotate each word with an atomic 'sem-tag', but instead that a semantic tagging should attach to each word a set of semantic primitive attributes or features. These features should include: - lemma or root, grouping together inflected and derived forms of the same lexical item; - broad subject categories where applicable; - selectional restrictions; - a meaning definition, stated in terms of a restricted Defining Vocabulary, and processed to remove stoplist-words and repetitions. A semantic tagger meeting this description can be derived from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, if combined with a robust lemmatiser; allowing automated semantic tagging of large English corpora such as LOB and BNC.
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Computing (Leeds) > Artificial Intelligence & Biological Systems (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 16 Jan 2015 11:31 |
Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2022 13:30 |
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Publisher: | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group in Computational Semantics (SIGSEM) |
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