[developers] Lexical Acquisition through user query

[Francis Bond]

2008/10/8 Joshua Hou <jshou at u.washington.edu>:
> Hello Delph-in Developers,
>
> I'm working on a web-interface to increase the lexicon of a Grammar
> Matrix grammar.  The interface will have some sort of survey to query
> native speakers on different words that fit the existing types in the
> grammar.  This is not a machine learning project, but rather an
> interface that allows language consultants to increase the size of the
> lexicon.  Has anybody worked on something similar?

There was some similar work in MT.
The only references I could quickly find are:

Challenges in automated elicitation of a controlled bilingual corpus
	Katharina Probst and Lori Levin, TMI 2002.
	
Embedding Knowledge Elicitation and MTSystems within a Single Architecture
Marjorie McShane, Sergei Nirenburg, James Cowie, Ron Zacharski
December 2002 		
Machine Translation,   Volume 17 Issue 4
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers

This paper describes Expedition, an environment designed to facilitate
the quick ramp-up of MT systems from practically any alphabetic
language (L) into English. The central component of Expedition is a
knowledge-elicitation system that guides ...
Keywords: knowledge acquisition, knowledge elicitation, rapid ramp-up

They aren't quite the same but I hope that they will be useful.


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