An application of lexical semantics to knowledge acquisition from corpora
Peter Anick, James D. Pustejovsky · 1990
In this paper, we describe a program of research designed to explore how a lexical semantic theory may be exploited for extracting information from corpora suitable for use in Information Retrieval applications. Unlike with purely statistical collocational analyses, the framework of a semantic theory allows the automatic construction of predictions about semantic relationships among words appearing in collocational systems. We illustrate the approach for the acquisition of lexical information for several classes of nominals.