Using Formal Concept Analysis to Acquire Knowledge about Verbs

Ingrid Falk (1) , Claire Gardent (1) , Alejandra Lorenzo (1)

1 TALARIS - Natural Language Processing: representation, inference and semantics

We use Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) to acquire information about verbs as required by Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. In particular, we show that stable concepts permits creating verb classes with good generalisation power; and that association rules are useful for complementing incomplete verb information.

Domaines: Traitement du texte et du document

Ingrid Falk, Claire Gardent, Alejandra Lorenzo. Using Formal Concept Analysis to Acquire Knowledge about Verbs. 7th International Conference on Concept Lattices and Their Applications - CLA 2010, Oct 2010, Sevilla, Spain. pp.12. ⟨hal-00516789v2⟩