This paper proposes a machine learning approach to the task of assigning the international standard on classification of diseases ICD-9-CM codes to clinical records. By treating the task as a text categorisation problem, a classification system was built which explores a variety of features including negation, different strategies of measuring gloss overlaps between the content of clinical reco...

This paper presents the overall methodology that has been used to encode both the Brazilian Portuguese WordNet (WordNet.Br) standard language-independent conceptual-semantic relations (hyponymy, co-hyponymy, meronymy, cause, and entailment) and the so-called cross-lingual conceptual-semantic relations between different wordnets. Accordingly, after contextualizing the project and outlining the c...

Thanks are due to the Institute of the Czech National Corpus and to the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences which kindly provided the data source for this paper. I also wish to thank Denisa Lenertová and the audiences of the Potsdam Workshop on Heterogenity in Linguistic Databases and of the 13th JungslavistInnen-Treffen for discussion, and the editors for their frie...

High-quality lexical resources are needed to both train and evaluate Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) systems. The problem of ambiguity persists even in limited domains, thus the necessity for wide-coverage inventories of senses (dictionaries) and corpora sense-tagged to them. WordNet has been used extensively for WSD, for both its broad coverage and its large network of semantic relations. In t...

The purpose of the study is to investigate dictionary and glossary use pre-service English language teachers while reading on computer. participants were 26 first- second-year at a large Turkish public university. In order explore their clicking gloss-use behavior reading, web page with pop-up window was designed, screen capture tool used record participants' actions. findings suggested that us...

Many standard definitions of ‘argument’ that recognise an ambiguity between its active and objective senses seek to subsume these in various ways into a single, composite whole. This, it is argued, glosses over the distinction instead exploiting elucidatory potential. Whilst optimistic about prospects theory integration, paper recommends methodology differentiation as first necessary step towar...

In this panel presentation I will contend that it is possible to extract knowledge fragments from WordNet [1] and EuroWordNet [2] that combine explicit knowledge structures already provided by the thesauri such as synonymy, hypernymy and thematic relations, and implicit information from the (Euro)WordNet’s hierarchical structure and the glosses that are associated with each WordNet synset. The ...

The limited coverage of lexical-semantic resources is a significant problem for NLP systems which can be alleviated by automatically classifying the unknown words. Supersense tagging assigns unknown nouns one of 26 broad semantic categories used by lexicographers to organise their manual insertion into WORDNET. Ciaramita and Johnson (2003) present a tagger which uses synonym set glosses as anno...