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<Paper uid="C94-1041">
  <Title>KASSYS: A DEFINITION ACQUISITION SYSTEM IN NATURAL LANGUAGE Patricc Hernert</Title>
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I-INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The mm of KASSYS, the system described here, is to acquire lexicographical definitions expressed in French, to extract from these definitions a carefully chosen conceptual structure, to save this structure in a tile, and to then be able to use it, where appropriate, for the semantic analysis of a text or during the search for an artswer to a question put by the user. + The formalistn which has been adopted for the representation of the detinitions is that o1' conceptual graphs, 2 that the reader is assumed to understand.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> All the examples will be given in the feral of statements in natural language, and the operations actually pcrfof med by the system on the conceptual stnmtut'es extracted from these statements will not be described. This paper is limited to hyperonymous delinitions. It ;list) shows, very brietly, how KASSYS can answer cet+tain types of question. null</Paragraph>
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