New linguistic encyclopaedic school dictionary

Community Building around Encyclopaedic Knowledge

This paper gives a brief overview of current technologies in systems handling encyclopaedic knowledge. Since most of the electronic encyclopaedias currently available are rather static and inflexible, greatly enhanced functionality is introduced that enables users to work more effectively and collaboratively. Users have the ability, for instance, to add annotations to every kind of object and c...

Developing Simplified Chinese Psychological Linguistic Analysis Dictionary for Microblog

The words that people use could reveal their emotional states, intentions, thinking styles, individual differences, etc. LIWC (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count) has been widely used for psychological text analysis, and its dictionary is the core. The Traditional Chinese version of LIWC dictionary has been released, which is a translation of LIWC English dictionary. However, Simplified Chinese ...

Lippincott's New Medical Dictionary

Dictionary Organization in Linguistic Automaton for Oriental Languages

The central problem for natural language processing (NLP) systems dealing with non-Indo-European (“Oriental”) languages is how to develop automatic dictionaries (AD) and dictionary entry (DE) schemes. The point is that the need of Oriental language industrial NLP has been felt for some time. It has acquired additional urgency with the rapid growth of business contacts between Russia and the nat...

EQUAL: Encyclopaedic QUestion Answering for Lists

This paper presents EQUAL , a semantic question answering (QA) system which relies on structural information from Wikipedia to extract answers to list questions in the GikiCLEF 2009 task. The system is described in the context of of a more general architecture for semantic QA. Unlike the usual textual QA approach, EQUAL does not rely on identifying the answer within a text snippet by using keyw...