We describe a method for the automatic acquisition of the hyponymy lexical relation from
unrestricted text. Two goals motivate the approach:(i) avoidance of the need for pre-encoded …

Corpus Linguistics has quickly established itself as the leading undergraduate course book
in the subject. This second edition takes full account of the latest developments in the rapidly …

The WordNet lexical database is now quite large and offers broad coverage of general
lexical relations in English. As is evident in this volume, WordNet has been employed as a …

This paper presents an original method and its implementation to extract terminology from
corpora by combining linguistic filters and statistical methods. Starting from a linguistic study …

Collocation is a common language phenomenon which has attracted the interest of
researchers in many subfields of both theoretical and computational linguistics. Although …

This paper describes an accurate, relatively inexpensive method for the disambiguation of
noun homographs using large text corpora. The algorithm checks the context surrounding …

In this paper we outline a research program for computational linguistics, making extensive
use of text corpora. We demonstrate how a semantic framework for lexical knowledge can …

One of the main problems for applied natural language processing is gaps in the lexicon,
including missing words and word senses, and inadequate descriptions of word use in …

This volume addresses the complex problem of the use and exploitation of bilingual lexical
resources available in machine-readable form. The reusability of lexical resources has …

As large on-line corpora become more prevalent, a number of attempts have been made to
automatically extract thesaurus-like relations directly from text using knowledge poor …