On The Acquisition Of Conceptual Definitions Via Textual Modelling Of Meaning Paraphrases

Conceptual knowledge bases are core components of curlgnt natural language semantic information processing systems. Their coment, structure and size crucially determines the applicability of these systems, and still their development and maintenance is a serious bottleneck. Taking into account the enormous amount of entries required for practical purposes, manual modelling procedures are hardly practicable. Much effort is therefore devoted to achieving a controlled automatic handling of these tasks.