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Research toward the development of a lexical knowledge base for natural language processing

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ACM SIGIR Forum, Volume 23, Issue SI

Pages 242 - 249

https://doi.org/10.1145/75335.75360

Published: 01 May 1989 Publication History

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This paper documents research toward building a complete lexicon containing all the words found in general newspaper text. It is intended to provide the reader with an understanding of the inherent limitations of existing vocabulary collection methods and the need for greater attention to multi-word phrases as the building blocks of text. Additionally, while traditional reference books define many proper nouns, they appear to be very limited in their coverage of the new proper nouns appearing daily in newspapers. Proper nouns appear to require a grammar and lexicon of components much the way general parsing of text requires syntactic rules and a lexicon of common nouns.

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ACM SIGIR Forum Volume 23, Issue SI

Special issue: Proceedings of the 12th annual international ACMSIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, N.J. Belkin and C.J. van Rijsbergen (Eds.), June 25-28, 1989, Cambridge, MA.

June 1989

243 pages

ISSN:0163-5840

DOI:10.1145/75335

Editors:
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SIGIR '89: Proceedings of the 12th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
May 1989
257 pages
ISBN:0897913213
DOI:10.1145/75334
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C. J. van Rijsbergen

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