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The paper presents a method of automatic enrichment of a very large dictionary of word combinations. The method is based on results of automatic syntactic analysis (parsing) of sentences. The dependency formalism is used for representation of syntactic trees that allows for easier treatment of information about syntactic compatibility. Evaluation of the method is presented for the Spanish language based on comparison of the automatically generated results with manually marked word combinations.
Work was done under partial support of Mexican Government (CONACyT, SNI, CGPI-IPN, PIFI-IPN), Korean Government (KIPA Professorship for Visiting Faculty Positions in Korea), and ITRI of CAU. The first author is currently on Sabbatical leave at Chung-Ang University. We thank Prof. Igor A. Bolshakov for useful discussions.
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Gelbukh, A., Sidorov, G., Han, SY., Hernández-Rubio, E. (2004). Automatic Enrichment of Very Large Dictionary of Word Combinations on the Basis of Dependency Formalism. In: Monroy, R., Arroyo-Figueroa, G., Sucar, L.E., Sossa, H. (eds) MICAI 2004: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. MICAI 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2972. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24694-7_44
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