From the texts to the concepts they contain: a chain of linguistic treatments

[摘要] The textmining system we are building deals with the specific problem of identifying the instances of relevant concepts present in the texts. Our system relies therefore on interac tions between a field expert and the various linguistic modules we use, often adapted from existing ones, such as Brill’s tagger or CMU’s Link parser. We have developed learning pro cedures adapted to various steps of the linguistic treatment, mainly for grammatical tagging, terminology, and concept learning. Our interaction with the expert differs from classical supervised learning, in that the expert is not simply a resource who is only able to provide examples, and unable to provide the formalized knowledge underlying these examples. We are developing specific programming languages which enable the field expert to intervene directly in some of the linguistic tasks. Our approach is thus devoted to help one expert in one field to detect the concepts relevant for his/her field, using a large amount of texts. Our approach is made of two steps. The first one is an automatic approach that finds relevant and novel sentences in the texts. The second one is based on the expert’s knowledge and finds more specific relevant sentences. Working on 50 different domains without an expert has been a challenge in itself, and

[学科分类] 社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）