Semi-automatic Construction of Cross-period Thesaurus

Towards Automatic Thesaurus Construction and Enrichment.

Thesaurus construction with minimum human efforts often relies on automatic methods to discover terms and their relations. Hence, the quality of a thesaurus heavily depends on the chosen methodologies for: (i) building i…

A New Approach for Semi-automatic Building and Extending a Multilingual Terminology Thesaurus

This paper describes a new system for semi-automatically building, extending and managing a terminological thesaurus---a multilingual terminology dictionary enriched with relationships between the terms themselves to for…

DanNet2: Extending the coverage of adjectives in DanNet based on thesaurus data (project presentation)

The paper describes work in progress in the DanNet2 project financed by the Carlsberg Foundation. The project aim is to extend the original Danish wordnet, DanNet, in several ways. Main focus is on extension of the cover…

Automatic Thesaurus Construction for Modern Hebrew

Towards a methodology for automatic identification of hypernyms in the definitions of large-scale dictionary

The purpose of this paper is to identify automatically hypernyms for dictionary entries by exploring their definitions. In order to do this, we propose a weighting methodology that lets us assign to each lexeme a weight …