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SREC: Discourse-level semantic relation extraction from text

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Semantic relation extraction is a significant topic in semantic web and natural language processing with various important applications such as knowledge acquisition, web and text mining, information retrieval and search engine, text classification and summarization. Many approaches such rule base, machine learning and statistical methods have been applied, targeting different types of relation ranging from hyponymy, hypernymy, meronymy, holonymy to domain-specific relation. In this paper, we present a computational method for extraction of explicit and implicit semantic relation from text, by applying statistic and linear algebraic approaches besides syntactic and semantic processing of text.

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Zahedi, Mh., Kahani, M. SREC: Discourse-level semantic relation extraction from text. Neural Comput & Applic 23, 1573–1582 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-012-1109-9

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