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<Paper uid="P98-2181">
  <Title>Building Accurate Semantic Taxonomies from Monolingual MRDs</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper presents a method that conbines a set of unsupervised algorithms in order to accurately build large taxonomies from any machine-readable dictionary (MRD). Our aim is to profit from conventional MRDs, with no explicit semantic coding. We propose a system that 1) performs fully automatic extraction of taxonomic links from MRD entries and 2) ranks the extracted relations in a way that selective manual refinement is allowed.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Tested accuracy can reach around 100% depending on the degree of coverage selected, showing that taxonomy building is not limited to structured dictionaries such as LDOCE.</Paragraph>
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