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title = "Towards a methodology for automatic identification of hypernyms in the definitions of large-scale dictionary",
author = "Gheorghita, Inga and
Pierrel, Jean-Marie",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'12)",
month = may,
year = "2012",
address = "Istanbul, Turkey",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/531_Paper.pdf",
pages = "2614--2618",
abstract = "The purpose of this paper is to identify automatically hypernyms for dictionary entries by exploring their definitions. In order to do this, we propose a weighting methodology that lets us assign to each lexeme a weight in a definition. This fact allows us to predict that lexemes with the highest weight are the closest hypernyms of the defined lexeme in the dictionary. The extracted semantic relation is-a is used for the automatic construction of a thesaurus for image indexing and retrieval. We conclude the paper by showing some experimental results to validate our method and by presenting our methodology of automatic thesaurus construction.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Towards a methodology for automatic identification of hypernyms in the definitions of large-scale dictionary](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/531_Paper.pdf) (Gheorghita & Pierrel, LREC 2012)
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