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This paper describes a new approach for describing contents through the use of interlinguas in order to facilitate the extraction of specific pieces of information. The authors highlight the different dimensions of a document and how these dimensions define the capacities of their respective contents to be found in the scalable process of finding information. A specific interlingua, UNL, will be described. This approach is illustrated both with rich examples of the followed model and with actual applications, that includes the description of some running projects based on the interlingual representation of contents.
This paper has been sponsored by the Spanish Research Council through the project PATRILEX-HUM2005-0726.
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Cardeñosa, J., Gallardo, C., Iraola, L. (2006). UNL as a Text Content Representation Language for Information Extraction. In: Larsen, H.L., Pasi, G., Ortiz-Arroyo, D., Andreasen, T., Christiansen, H. (eds) Flexible Query Answering Systems. FQAS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4027. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11766254_43
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