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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, LaTeCH 2013 |
| Editors | Piroska Lendvai, Kalliopi Zervanou |
| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
| Pages | 29-35 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781937284626 |
| State | Published - 2013 |
| Event | 7th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, LaTeCH 2013 - Sofia, Bulgaria Duration: 8 Aug 2013 → … |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
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| ISSN (Print) | 0736-587X |
Conference
| Conference | 7th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, LaTeCH 2013 |
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| Country/Territory | Bulgaria |
| City | Sofia |
| Period | 8/08/13 → … |
Bibliographical note
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