Revisiting the potentialities of a mechanical thesaurus.
Conference Proceeding
Priss, U., & Old, L. J. (2009)
Revisiting the potentialities of a mechanical thesaurus. In R. Ferre (Ed.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis, ICFCA, 284-298. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01815-2_21
This paper revisits the lattice-based thesaurus models which Margaret Masterman used for machine translation in the 1950’s and 60’s. Masterman’s notions are mapped onto modern...
Bilingual word association networks.
Book Chapter
Priss, U., & Old, L. J. (2007)
Bilingual word association networks. In U. Priss, S. Polovina, & R. Hill (Eds.), Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Architectures for Smart Applications, 310-320. Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73681-3_23
Bilingual word association networks can be beneficial as a tool in foreign
language education because they show relationships among cognate words of different languages and c...
Lattice-based modelling of thesauri.
Report
Priss, U. & Old, L. J. (2007)
Lattice-based modelling of thesauri
This paper revisits ideas about the use of lattices as underlying conceptual structures in information retrieval and machine translation as suggested by researchers in the 195...
The semantic structure of Roget’s Thesaurus cross-references.
Conference Proceeding
Old, L. J. (2009)
The semantic structure of Roget’s Thesaurus cross-references. In U. Priss, & G. Angelova (Eds.), Conceptual Structures for Extracting Natural Language Semantics
This study analyzed a database version of Roget’s Thesaurus (Roget’s International Thesaurus, 3rd Edition, 1962) for connectivity patterns among cross-references in order to i...