Extracting Human Spanish Nouns
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چکیده
In this article we present a simple method to extract Spanish nouns with the linguistic property of “human” animacy. We describe a non-supervised method based on lexical patterns and on a person name list enlarged from a collection of newspaper texts. Results were obtained from the Web filters and estimation methods are proposed to validate them.
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