Concept Mention

A concept mention is a mention (within a linguistic item) whose referent is a concept.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Written Concept Mention to being a Spoken Concept Mention.
  • It can (typically) be a referring expression mention (within a Linguistic Sentence Instance).
  • It can be in a Semantic Relation Mention with another Concept Mention.
  • It can have a Concept Mention Identifier.
  • It can be detected by a Concept Mention Detection Task.
  • It can be a Disambiguated Concept Mention (linked to a Canonical Referencer).
  • It can be associated with a Concept Mention Category, such as: entity mentions, Pronoun Mentions, Verb Mentions, and Punctuation Mentions.
  • It can range, depending on how Machine Processable it is, from
    • being an Unidentified Concept Mention.
    • to being an Identified Concept Mention.
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• Example(s):
  • a Named Entity Mention, such as "[Michael] left an hour ago."
  • an Entity Mention, such as: "[A person] arrived [last night]."
  • a Class Mention, such as in: "A [person] arrived last [night]."
  • a Verb Mention, such as in: "A person [arrived] last night."
  • a Noun Phrase Mention, such as in: “We investigate [the task of keyword-based information retrieval]."
  • a Verb Phrase Mention, such as in: "When X is needed for Y tasks [grounding the textual entity to a unique database entry] is a prerequisite."
  • an Annotated Concept Mention (e.g using Wiki notation), such as:
    • "A [person] arrived last night."
    • ... as an American broadcasting executive who served as the president of CBS between … also served as the chairman of the Rand Corporation from …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Relation Mention, such as "[Jane, the Canadian], arrived last night"
  • a Function Word, such as “the” or “in”.
  • a Sentence Fragment, such as “Michael is.”.
• See: Mention Detection, Mention Classification, Mention Resolution.

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References

2010

• (Melli, 2010a) ⇒ Gabor Melli. (2010). “Concept Mentions within KDD-2009 Abstracts (kdd09cma1) Linked to a KDD Ontology (kddo1).” In: Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010).
  • QUOTE: Each abstract has its concept mentions identified and, where possible, linked to the appropriate concept in the ontology.

2005

• (Klebanov & Shamir, 2006) ⇒ Beata Beigman Klebanov, and Eli Shamir. (2005). “Guidelines for annotation of concept mention patterns." Technical Report 2005–8, Leibniz Center for Research in Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
  • QUOTE: While words constitute concept mentions, a concept is construed as a sub-web, comprised from words that mention it and connections to concepts that anchor it and are anchored by it. A word can be used in more than one concept mention simultaneously. …

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