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COATIS, an NLP system to locate expressions of actions connected by causality links

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Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management (EKAW 1997)

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COATIS is an automatic tool designed to locate certain actions expressed in texts. Rules of contextual exploration, activated by the presence of linguistic indicators of causality in sentences, enable COATIS to locate expressions that denote field actions and that are linked by causal relations. COATIS processes technical texts of any domain, in the French language. It is therefore particularly suitable for use in causal knowledge acquisition from texts.

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Garcia, D., EDF-DER., IMA-TIEM. (1997). COATIS, an NLP system to locate expressions of actions connected by causality links. In: Plaza, E., Benjamins, R. (eds) Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management. EKAW 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1319. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0026799

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