Corpus-Based Induction of Lexical Representation and Meaning

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 16

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Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 16

1999 SIGART/AAAI Doctoral Consortium

The acquisition of linguistic knowledge, i.e., the identification, extraction, and encoding of linguistic information in a corpus, has been one of the main motivations for data-driven approaches to natural language. Methods have been developed for the acquisition of, for instance, parts of speech, noun compounds, collocations, support verbs, subcategorization frames, phrase structure rules, selectional restrictions and sense induction for an overview). Drawing on this body of research, I am investigating the acquisition of lexical semantic knowledge from corpora, thereby addressing the logical problem of language acquisition, one of the fundamental issues in linguistics and cognitive science.