LINGUIST List 21.2874 Sat Jul 10 2010 Books: Computational Linguistics/Lexicography: Westerhout Editor for this issue: Maria Moreno-Rollins <marialinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.    Mariëtte Bonenkamp, Definition Extraction for Glossary Creation: Westerhout Message 1: Definition Extraction for Glossary Creation: Westerhout Date: 15-Jun-2010 From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp <lotuu.nl> Subject: Definition Extraction for Glossary Creation: Westerhout E-mail this message to a friend Title: Definition Extraction for Glossary Creation Subtitle: A study on extracting definitions for semi-automatic glossary creation in Dutch Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series Published: 2010 Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT                 http://www.lotpublications.nl/ Author: Eline Westerhout Paperback: ISBN: 9789460930348 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 24.86 Abstract: The central topic of this thesis is the automatic extraction of definitions from text. Definition extraction can play a role in various applications including the semi-automatic development of glossaries in an eLearning context, which constitutes the main focus of this dissertation. A glossary provides definitions for the most important terms that are discussed in a text. The semi-automatic extraction approach presented in this study consists of two phases. As a first step, a method entirely based on lexico-syntactic patterns has been used to distinguish between definitions and non-definitions. A corpus consisting of 600 definitions has been employed to identify recurrent definition patterns. Since many of these patterns are not unique to definitions, a second step was employed to reduce the number of non-definitions identified. It has been investigated whether other textual characteristics can contribute to the correct classification of definitions, in addition to the lexico-syntactic patterns. The properties that have been examined vary from the importance of the defined word (phrase) within a text to the layout of the definition. Machine learning techniques have been employed to identify which are the most relevant (combinations of) definition properties. The results of this dissertation are relevant for researchers in linguistics and lexicography as well as for the development of language technology applications. Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics                             Lexicography Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=48869 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info. Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/ Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com/ Springer http://www.springer.com University of Toronto Press http://www.utpjournals.com/ Wiley-Blackwell http://www.wiley.com ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass http://glsa.hypermart.net/ International Pragmatics Assoc. http://www.ipra.be Langues et Linguistique http://y.ennaji.free.fr/fr/ Linguistic Association of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT http://www.lotpublications.nl/ Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ SIL International http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp St. Jerome Publishing Ltd http://www.stjerome.co.uk Utrecht institute of Linguistics http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ Page Updated: 10-Jul-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.