Semantic relations between nominals /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nastase, Vivi
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool, [2013]
Series:Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.
Synthesis lectures on human language technologies ; # 19.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Abstract:People make sense of a text by identifying the semantic relations which connect the entities or concepts described by that text. A system which aspires to human-like performance must also be equipped to identify, and learn from, semantic relations in the texts it processes. Understanding even a simple sentence such as "Opportunity and Curiosity find similar rocks on Mars" requires recognizing relations (rocks are located on Mars, signalled by the word on) and drawing on already known relations (Opportunity and Curiosity are instances of the class of Mars rovers). A language-understanding system should be able to find such relations in documents and progressively build a knowledge base or even an ontology. Resources of this kind assist continuous learning and other advanced language-processing tasks such as text summarization, question answering and machine translation.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.
Series from website.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 20, 2013).
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 107 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-102) and index.
ISBN:1608459802 (electronic bk.)
9781608459803 (electronic bk.)
ISSN:1947-4059 ;
DOI:10.2200/S00489ED1V01Y201303HLT019