Semi-automatic Construction of Cross-period Thesaurus

Chaya Liebeskind, Ido Dagan, Jonathan Schler

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Abstract

Cross-period (diachronic) thesaurus construction aims to enable potential users to search for modern terms and obtain semantically related terms from earlier periods in history. This is a complex task not previously addressed computationally. In this paper we introduce a semi-automatic iterative Query Expansion (QE) scheme for supporting cross-period thesaurus construction. We demonstrate the empirical benefit of our scheme for a Jewish crossperiod thesaurus and evaluate its impact on recall and on the effectiveness of lexicographer manual effort.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 7th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, LaTeCH 2013
EditorsPiroska Lendvai, Kalliopi Zervanou
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages29-35
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781937284626
StatePublished - 2013
Event7th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, LaTeCH 2013 - Sofia, Bulgaria
Duration: 8 Aug 2013 → …

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Conference

Conference7th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, LaTeCH 2013
Country/TerritoryBulgaria
CitySofia
Period8/08/13 → …

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Linguistics and Language
  • Language and Linguistics

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