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The Generation and Use of Layer Information in Multilayered Extended Semantic Networks

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Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2002)

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The paradigm of Multilayered Extended Semantic Networks (MultiNet) is one of the most thoroughly described knowledge representantion systems along the line of semantic networks. The conceptual representation of MultiNet is characterized by embedding its nodes into a multidimensional space of layer attributes. These layer attributes play an important part during the syntactico-semantic analysis of natural language texts and during the inferential answer finding in question answering systems. The paper demonstrates the automatic generation of complex layer information for conceptual nodes and their use in the assimilation of knowledge pieces into a larger knowledge base.

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  1. Intelligent Information and Communication Systems, University of Hagen, Applied Computer Science VII, 58084, Hagen, Germany

    Sven Hartrumpf & Hermann Helbig

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  1. Faculty of Informatics Department of Programming Systems and Communication, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Sojka

  2. Faculty of Informatics Department of Information Technologies, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

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Hartrumpf, S., Helbig, H. (2002). The Generation and Use of Layer Information in Multilayered Extended Semantic Networks. In: Sojka, P., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2448. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46154-X_12

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