Extraction of semantic information from an ordinary English dictionary and its evaluation

Abstract

The ;~ ~tomatlc e~tractimt o~ scntar~tie ilthlrmatio~, ca-.pec{a.]ly~emrmtic rel~tionships be~wemt words, from sat o~:-di~l~'y I~h~glish dictionaty it~ described.For the extra,trim b the mag,~etic tape re:eaton or' I, DOCE (l,oagman f)ictic,-~ry of (Jmttempotary E~glish, 1978 editimt) is loaded b~to a ~:elatk,aa] database system.Developed exgractimt pro!.,,~:;u~ts a.mdyze a definition se:uteltce in I,I)OCE with a pa,~te:r~t ~m~tching based algo*ithm.Si,tce this ~lgofithm is no t pe*[e(:t, the *esalt of ¢]te extra.el.trot h a~; been corn IJa.~:ed with sem~/ltic b, formatimt (sema.nticmarkers) which gba ma.gnetic tape version o~ LI)OCI~ eontaiim.The zesnlt oi comparismt i~' ~ a