Automated Definition Extraction Task

An Automated Definition Extraction (DE) Task is a definition extraction task that is an automated information extraction task.

• Context:
  • It can be solved by a Definition Extraction System.
  • It can range from being a Automated Definitional Sentence Extraction Task to being Automated Definition Extraction Paragraph Extraction Task.
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• Example(s):
  • Automated Definitional Sentence Extraction Task, such as:
    • (Espinosa-Anke et al., 2016).
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Automated Definition Generation.
• See: Bootstrapping Algorithm.

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References

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: ... Definition Extraction (DE), i.e. the task to automatically extract definitions from naturally occurring text …

2009

• (Sierra et al., 2009) ⇒ Gerardo Sierra, Mara Pozzi and Juan-Manuel Torres (2009, September). "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Definition Extraction". In: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Definition Extraction (WDE 2009).
  • QUOTE: In the last few years the automatic extraction of definitions from textual data has become a common research topic in several domains of Natural Language Processing. These include:
    • Definition extraction as a methodological resource for fields as different as computational semantics, information extraction, text mining, ontology development, WEB semantics and elearning.
    • The conception of definition extraction as a self-challenging task, in particular in computational lexicography and terminography, fields oriented towards the design and implementation of electronic tools such as lexical knowledge bases, machine-readable dictionaries, terminological databases, thesauri, machine translation systems or question-answering systems.

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