NLP and text analysis at the University of Massachusetts
Wendy G. Lehnert · 1992
Our group is investigating a variety of techniques centered around the use of text corpora to support natural language processing applications. We are interested in information extraction from text, text classification, and knowledge acquisition from text corpora. Our goal is to develop technologies that can be readily ported across domains and scaled up with a minimal amount of manual engineering. In particular, we are experimenting with various kinds of statistical profiles and case based reasoning systems in order to facilitate:• semantically-oriented dictionary construction• the analysis of complex sentence structures• complex domain discriminations• specific aspects of discourse analysis