Abstract
Cross-period (diachronic) thesaurus construction aims to enable potential users to
search for modern terms and obtain semantically related terms from earlier periods in history. This is a complex task not previously addressed computationally. In
this paper we introduce a semi-automatic iterative Query Expansion (QE) scheme
for supporting cross-period thesaurus construction. We demonstrate the empirical
benefit of our scheme for a Jewish crossperiod thesaurus and evaluate its impact on
recall and on the effectiveness of lexicographer manual effort
search for modern terms and obtain semantically related terms from earlier periods in history. This is a complex task not previously addressed computationally. In
this paper we introduce a semi-automatic iterative Query Expansion (QE) scheme
for supporting cross-period thesaurus construction. We demonstrate the empirical
benefit of our scheme for a Jewish crossperiod thesaurus and evaluate its impact on
recall and on the effectiveness of lexicographer manual effort
| Original language | American English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities |
| Editors | Piroska Lendvai, Kalliopi Zervanou |
| Place of Publication | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
| Pages | 29-35 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| State | Published - 1 Aug 2013 |