Creation of a semantic lexicon by Traversal of a machine tractable concept taxonomy*
Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, Donie O’Sullivan, Annette McElligott, Liam Sheahan · Journal of Quantitative Linguistics · 1995
In order to develop computer systems which can process the content of natural language texts it is necessary to capture the meaning of words in a way which is robust and domain independent. In this article we discuss a particular kind of word representation based on sets of weighted semantic features. We describe how a lexicon of such patterns can be created automatically from a hierarchical concept ontology and evaluated using a psychometric method. Finally we summarise our findings in this research, giving the strengths and weaknesses of the advocated approach.