Automatic extraction of definitions

Chunxia Zhang; Peng Jiang

doi:10.1109/ICCSIT.2009.5234687

Automatic extraction of definitions

Chunxia Zhang^*, Peng Jiang

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The task of definition extraction aims to acquire definitions of terms from texts. This task is a subtask of terminology extraction, ontology construction, semantic relation learning, and question answering and so on. This paper presents a bootstrapping approach to automatic extracting definitions of domain-specific terms from unannotated Chinese free texts. Experimental results in three domains of computer, military, and archaeology show effectiveness of our algorithm. As an application of definition extraction, definitions identified by our method have been used to answer factual questions in a question answering system. & copy; 2009 IEEE.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2009 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2009
Pages	364-368
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCSIT.2009.5234687
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	2009 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2009 - Beijing, China Duration: 8 Aug 2009 → 11 Aug 2009

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Name	Proceedings - 2009 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2009

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Conference	2009 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2009
Country/Territory	China
City	Beijing
Period	8/08/09 → 11/08/09

Keywords

Bootstrapping method
Definition extraction
Domain-specific ontology
Knowledge extraction
Question answering

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Zhang, C., & Jiang, P. (2009). Automatic extraction of definitions. In Proceedings - 2009 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2009 (pp. 364-368). Article 5234687 (Proceedings - 2009 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2009). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCSIT.2009.5234687

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Zhang, C & Jiang, P 2009, Automatic extraction of definitions. in Proceedings - 2009 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2009., 5234687, Proceedings - 2009 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2009, pp. 364-368, 2009 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2009, Beijing, China, 8/08/09. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCSIT.2009.5234687

Automatic extraction of definitions. / Zhang, Chunxia ; Jiang, Peng.
Proceedings - 2009 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2009. 2009. p. 364-368 5234687 (Proceedings - 2009 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2009).

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