An attempt to automatic thesaurus construction from an ordinary Japanese language dictionary
Hiroaki Tsurumaru, Toru Hitaka, Sho Yoshida · 1986
ST~How to obtain hierarchical relations(e.g,superordinate -hyponym relation, synonym relation) is one of the most important problems for thesaurus construction, A pilot system for extracting these relations automatically from an ordinary Japanese language dictionary (Shinmeikai Kokugojiten, published hy Sansei-do, in machine readable form) is given.The features of the definition sentences in the dictionary, the mechanical extraction of the hierarchical relations and the estimation of the results are discussed.