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Paper: w78-1999-2507
| Paper title: | Use of automatic keyphrase generation for creation of a construction thesaurus |
| Authors: | Kosovac B, Vanier D J |
| Summary: | The paper describes development of a thesaurus in the roofing domain. This work is part of a larger effort to investigate the potential of thesauri as an aid in product modeling. Extractor, a software module that extracts keyphrases from documents, was used for collecting candidate thesaurus terms from Internet sources. The principal advantage of the Internet as a source of candidate terms is that it reflects colloquial language: -- the language that is actually used by building practitioners and that it covers the widest range of different 'user views' on the domain. The advantage of using Extractor or similar software is that it allows processing huge text corpora available on the Internet and it eliminates irrelevant terms. The methodology used was found to be highly useful, although it was not sufficient by itself for constructing a construction thesaurus, as considerable human intervention was required. Though limited time resources did not allow full exploitation of Extractor's capabilities, some possibilities for customization of the software and for partial automation of a thesaurus construction process are suggested. |
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| Year of publication: | 1999 |
| Series: | w78:1999 |
| ISSN: | 2706-6568 |
| Download paper: | /pdfs/w78-1999-2507.content.pdf |
| Citation: | Kosovac B, Vanier D J (1999). Use of automatic keyphrase generation for creation of a construction thesaurus. Lacasse M A, Vanier D J (ed.); Information technology in construction, volume 4, ISBN 0-660-17743-9; Vancouver, May 30 - June 3, Canada (ISSN: 2706-6568), http://itc.scix.net/paper/w78-1999-2507 |
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