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"abstract": "This paper presents the strategy and design of a highly efficient semiautomatic method for labelling the semantic features of common nouns, using semantic relationships between words, and based on the information extracted from an electronic monolingual dictionary. The method, that uses genus data, specific relators and synonymy information, obtains an accuracy of over 99% and a scope of 68,2% with regard to all the common nouns contained in a real corpus of over 1 million words, after the manual labelling of only 100 nouns.",
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"text": "Semantic information is essential in a lot of NLP applications. In our case, the feature [\u00b1animate] is necessary to disambiguate between the possible Basque translations for the English preposition \"of\" and the Spanish preposition \"de\", when referring to location or possession. This ambiguity appears very often when translating to Basque [D\u00edaz de Ilarraza et al., 2000] . A complete manual labelling of semantic information would prove extremely expensive.",
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"text": "This study aims to outline the strategy and design of a semiautomatic method for labelling semantic features of common nouns in Basque, expanding and improving the idea outlined in [D\u00edaz de Ilarraza et al. 2000] . Due to the poor results obtained, this study dismissed the possibility of an initial approach aimed at extracting the information corresponding to the (\u00b1animate) feature automatically from corpus. Instead, an alternative idea was proposed, i.e. that of using semantic relationships between words extracted from the Basque monolingual dictionary Euskal Hiztegia (Sarasola 1996) . In this context, we used genus data and specific relators, together with a few words manually labelled, to extract the information corresponding to the (\u00b1animate) feature. The results obtained were very promising: 8,439 common nouns were labelled automatically after the manual labelling of just 100.",
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"text": "This paper describes the work carried out with the aim of expanding this idea this idea through the inclusion of information about synonymy, repeating the automatic process iteratively in order to obtain better results and, monitoring the reliability of the labelling of each individual noun. After studying the ideal relationship between the manual part of the operation and the scope of the automatic process, we generalised the process in order to adapt it to other semantic features. We obtained very satisfactory results considering the labelling of common nouns contained in the dictionary: for the [\u00b1animate] feature, we labelled 12,308 nouns with an accuracy of 99.2%, after the manual labelling of only 100.",
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"text": "This paper is organised as follows: section 2 presents the semantic relationships between words extracted from the Basque monolingual dictionary, and used by our semiautomatic labelling method. The method itself is described in section 3. The experiments carried out with the aim of optimising the efficiency of the method are described in section 4, and section 5 outlines the accuracy and scope of the labelling process for the [\u00b1animate] semantic feature. Finally, section 6 describes how the method was generalised to cover other semantic features. The study finishes by underlining the results obtained and suggesting future research.",
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"text": "According to Smith and Maxwell, there are three basic methods for defining a lexical entry [Smith and Maxwell., 1980] : hyperonym, and the lexical entry a more specific term or hyponym.",
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"text": "aeroplane. vehicle (genus) that can fly (differentia)",
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"text": "\u2022 By means of specific relators, that will often determine the semantic relationship between the lexical entry and the core of the definition.",
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"text": "horsefly. Name given to (relator) certain insects (related term) of the Tabanidae family One method for identifying the semantic relationship that exists between different words is to extract the information from monolingual dictionaries. Agirre et al. (2000) applied it for Basque, using the definitions contained in the monolingual dictionary Euskal Hiztegia. We use for our research the information about genus, specific relators and synonymy extracted by them.",
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"text": "In order to label the common nouns that appear in the dictionary, we used the definitions of the 26,461 senses of the 16,380 common nouns defined by means of genus/relators (14,569) or synonyms (11, 892) .",
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"text": "The experiment was carried out as follows: firstly, we used the information relative to genus and specific relators to extract the information regarding the [\u00b1animate] feature (3.1). Subsequently, we also incorporated the information relative to synonymy (3.2). Finally, we repeated the automatic process iteratively in order to obtain better results (3.3). An example of the whole process is given in section 3.4.",
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"text": "Our strategy consisted of manually labelling the semantic feature for a small number of words that appear most frequently in the dictionary as genus/relators. We used these words to infer the value of this feature for as many other words as possible.",
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"text": "This inference is possible because in the hyperonymy/hyponymy relationship, that characterises the genus, semantic attributes are inherited. For example, if 'langile' (worker) has the [+animate] feature, all its hyponyms (or in other words, all the words whose hyperonym is 'langile') will have the same [+animate] feature.",
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"text": "Certain genus are ambiguous, since they contain senses with opposing semantic features. For example 'buru' (head/boss) has the [animate] feature when it means 'head' and the [+animate] feature when it means 'boss'. The semantic feature of the sense defined can also be deduced from some specific relators. In this way, the semantic feature of words whose relator is 'nolakotasuna' (quality) would be [-animate], such as in the case of 'aitatasuna' (paternity), for example. There are also certain relators that offer no information, such as 'mota' (type), 'izena' (name), and 'banako' (unit, individual) .",
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"text": "We used four types of labels during the manual operation: [+], [-] In order to establish the reliability of the automatic labelling process for a particular noun, we considered the number of senses labelled, taking into account the reliability of the labels of the genus (or relator) that provided the information. The result was calculated as follows:",
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"text": "During manual labelling, we assigned reliability value 1 to all labels, since all the senses of these nouns are taken into account. Figure 1 shows the algorithm used. For each common noun defined in the dictionary, we take, one by one, all their senses containing genus or relator, assigning in each case the first label associated to a genus or relator in the hierarchy of hyperonyms. When the sign of all the labels are coincident we use it to label the entry, in other case, we use the label [?] . In all cases, their reliability is calculated.",
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"text": "Labelling using genus and relators can be expanded by using synonymy. Since the synonymy relationship shares semantic features, we can deduce the semantic label of a sense if we know the label of its synonymes.",
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"text": "Therefore, the information obtained during the previous phase can now be used to label new nouns. It also serves to increase the reliability of nouns already been labelled thanks to the genus information of some of their senses. If the synonymy information provided corroborates the genus information, the noun's reliability rating increases. If, on the other hand, the new label does not coincide with the previous one, a special label: [?] is assigned to the noun indicating this ambiguity.",
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"text": "Our next idea was to repeat the process; since the information gathered so far using synonymy may also be applied hereditarily through the genus' hyperonymy relationship.",
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"text": "We therefore repeated the process from the beginning, trying to label all the senses of the nouns that had not been fully labelled during the initial operations, by using the information contained in the senses of the nouns that had been fully labelled (reliability 1).",
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"text": "This process can be repeated any number of times, thereby labelling more and more words while increasing the reliability of the labelling itself. However, repetition of the process also increases the number of words labelled as ambiguous [?] , since more senses are labelled during each iteration, thereby increasing the chances of inconsistencies. As we shall see, this iterative process improves the results logarithmically up to a certain number of repetitions, after which it has no further advantageous effects.",
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"text": "The 100 words that are most frequently used as genus (g) or relators (r) were labelled manually for the [\u00b1animate] feature, as shown in table 2 (tables 3, 4 and 5 contain the Basque words processed during the explained operation, along with their English translation in italics). We shall now trace the implementation of the automatic labelling process for certain nouns. Table 3 shows the results of the first labelling process using information about genus and relators. The words printed in bold in the results column are nouns that were labelled during the manual labelling process. We can see how the noun 'babesgarri' (protector) is labelled as [-] thanks to the information provided by the relator of its only sense, which was manually labelled.",
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"text": "The noun therefore has a reliability rating of 1. In the same way, 2 of the 3 senses of 'armadura' (armour) had coincident labels, thereby giving a reliability rating of 0.66 (f=(1+1)/3=0.66). The noun 'ama' (mother) was labelled as [+], thanks to the information about genus and relator of 2 of its 3 senses, out of a total of 5 (the remaining two have synonymy information). The reliability rating was therefore calculated as 0.4 (f=(1+1)/5=0.4). The word 'zinismo' (cynicism) was labelled as [-] thanks to the fact that the genus of its 2 senses were both labelled as such, although one did not have a reliability rating of 1. The reliability rating obtained for 'zinismo' was therefore 0.87 (f=(1+0.75)/2=0.87). Table 4 shows some examples of the process using synonym information.",
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"text": "As we can see, 'iturburu' (spring), which the previous process had not managed to tag, is now labelled as [-] thanks to the synonymy information associated to one of the two senses. The resulting reliability rating is 0.06 (f=0.2/3=0.06). If we look at the term 'ama', which had previously been labelled as [+] on the basis of genus information, we see that the synonyms of the two senses that use synonymy (viewpoint) , which had had one sense labelled on the basis of genus, now have both senses labelled. The reliability rating for 'ikusgune' is calculated as f=(1+0.33)/2=0.66. We then repeated the process using first the genus/relator information (table 4) followed by the synonymy information (table 5) .",
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"text": "The aim of this repetition was to label only those words that had not been fully labelled, using the information provided by the terms that had been and that had a reliability rating of 1, such as 'babesgarri ', 'gertaera', 'espetxe', 'adiskide', 'filosofia', 'ama', 'gertakuntza', 'lagun', 'jateko' and 'giltzape' (tables 4 and 5) .",
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"text": "This process succeeded in labelling the senses of 'armadura' (protector), 'adiskidetzako' (friend) and 'apio' (celery), previously left unlabelled, since their genus 'soineko' (garment), 'lagun' (friend) and 'jateko' (food) had been fully labelled using the synonym information. On the other hand, 'ikusgune' (viewpoint), 'jarrera' (attitude) and 'zinismo' (cynicism), did not benefit from this repetition. Following this process, we applied the synonymy information, thus completing the second iteration. The process may be repeated as many times as you wish.",
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"text": "We carried out a number of different tests for the [\u00b1animate] semantic feature labelling the 2, 5, 10, 50, 100, 125 and 150 words most frequently used as genus/relators, and repeating the whole process (using both genus and relator and synonymy information) 1, 2 and 3 times.",
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"text": "The first 5 terms that appear most frequently as genus/relators are also the most productive during the automatic labelling process. From here on, the rate of increase gradually falls, until only 7 terms are labelled automatically for every noun labelled manually. On average, the first 2 nouns each enabled 1840 terms to be labelled, the next 3 enabled 1112 while the next 5 enabled only 250. After the hundredth noun, this average dropped to just 7 new terms labelled automatically for every term labelled manually. These results are illustrated in figure 2.",
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"text": "In order to decide the number of iterations required for optimum results, we compared the results obtained after 1 to 10 iterations after manually labelling 100 nouns (Figure 3) .",
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"text": "Although no increase was recorded for the number of nouns with reliability rating 1 (i.e. with all senses labelled) after the 3 rd iteration, the results for other reliability ratings continued to increase up until the 8 th iteration, since as more and more information is gathered, new contradictions are generated and the number of ambiguous labels increases. When the results stabilise, we can affirm that all the available information has been used and the most accurate results possible with this manual labelling operation have been obtained. It is important to check that the process does indeed stabilise, and that it does so after a fairly low number of iterations (in this case, after 8).",
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"text": "The repetition of the process does not significantly increase execution time. 10 iterations of the automatic labelling process for the [\u00b1animate] feature takes just 11 minutes 33 seconds using the total capacity of the CPU of a Sun Sparc 10 machine with 512 Megabytes of memory running at 360 MHz.",
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"text": "As far as we know, no so method of semantic feature labelling has been described in the literature, although many authors [Pustejovsky, 2000; Sheremetyeva & Nirenburg, 2000] claim the significance of semantic features in general, and [animacy] in particular, for NLP systems.",
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