%0 Conference Paper %1 Richardson98 %A Richardson, Stephen D. %A Dolan, William B. %A Vanderwende, Lucy %B Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics %C Morristown, NJ, USA %D 1998 %I Association for Computational Linguistics %K KnowledgeAcquisition KnowledgeBase %P 1098--1102 %R http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/980691.980749 %T MindNet: acquiring and structuring semantic information from text %U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=980749 %X As a lexical knowledge base constructed automatically from the definitions and example sentences in two machine-readable dictionaries (MRDs), MindNet embodies several features that distinguish it from prior work with MRDs. It is, however, more than this static resource alone. MindNet represents a general methodology for acquiring, structuring, accessing, and exploiting semantic information from natural language text. This paper provides an overview of the distinguishing characteristics of MindNet, the steps involved in its creation, and its extension beyond dictionary text.

@inproceedings{Richardson98, abstract = {As a lexical knowledge base constructed automatically from the definitions and example sentences in two machine-readable dictionaries (MRDs), MindNet embodies several features that distinguish it from prior work with MRDs. It is, however, more than this static resource alone. MindNet represents a general methodology for acquiring, structuring, accessing, and exploiting semantic information from natural language text. This paper provides an overview of the distinguishing characteristics of MindNet, the steps involved in its creation, and its extension beyond dictionary text.}, added-at = {2009-08-19T11:08:25.000+0200}, address = {Morristown, NJ, USA}, author = {Richardson, Stephen D. and Dolan, William B. and Vanderwende, Lucy}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/204d1b2b7feb148e02a0698bfdfd382fb/mkroell}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics}, description = {MindNet}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/980691.980749}, interhash = {4d364240268c59492df59ae76f23a20d}, intrahash = {04d1b2b7feb148e02a0698bfdfd382fb}, keywords = {KnowledgeAcquisition KnowledgeBase}, location = {Montreal, Quebec, Canada}, pages = {1098--1102}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, timestamp = {2009-08-19T11:08:25.000+0200}, title = {MindNet: acquiring and structuring semantic information from text}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=980749}, year = 1998 }