Definitional Sentence Extraction System

A Definitional Sentence Extraction System is an definition extraction system that implements a definitional sentence extraction algorithm to solve a automated definitional sentence extraction task.

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• Example(s):
  • DefExt.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Definitional Paragraph Extraction System.
  • a Definitional Sentence Generation System.
• See: Knowledge Base Population System.

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References

2018

• (Espinosa-Anke & Schockaert, 2018) ⇒ Luis Espinosa-Anke, and Steven Schockaert. (2018). “Syntactically Aware Neural Architectures for Definition Extraction.” In: Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies.

2016

• (Espinosa-Anke et al., 2016) ⇒ Luis Espinosa-Anke, Roberto Carlini, Horacio Saggion, and Francesco Ronzano. (2016). “DEFEXT: A Semi Supervised Definition Extraction Tool.” In: GLOBALEX 2016 Lexicographic Resources for Human Language Technology Workshop Programme.
  • QUOTE: ... We present DefExt, an easy to use semi-supervised Definition Extraction Tool. DefExt is designed to extract from a target corpus those textual fragments where a term is explicitly mentioned together with its core features, i.e. its definition. It works on the back of a Conditional Random Fields based sequential labeling algorithm and a bootstrapping approach. …

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