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International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems

NLDB 2000: Natural Language Processing and Information Systems pp 127–140Cite as

Natural Language Analysis for Semantic Document Modeling

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To ease the retrieval of documents published on the Web, the documents should be classified in a way that users find helpful and meaningful. This paper presents an approach to semantic document classification and retrieval based on Natural Language Analysis and Conceptual Modeling. A conceptual domain model is used in combination with linguistic tools to define a controlled vocabulary for a document collection. Users may browse this domain model and interactively classify documents by selecting model fragments that describe the contents of the documents. Natural language tools are used to analyze the text of the documents and propose relevant domain model concepts and relations. The proposed fragments are refined by the users and stored as XML document descriptions. For document retrieval, lexical analysis is used to pre-process search expressions and map these to the domain model for manual query-refinement. A prototype of the system is described, and the approach is illustrated with examples from a document collection published by the Norwegian Center for Medical Informatics (KITH).

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Science, IDI, Norwegian University of Technology and Science, NTNU, Norway

    Terje Brasethvik & Jon Atle Gulla

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    Mokrane Bouzeghoub  & Zoubida Kedad  & 

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    Elisabeth Métais

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Brasethvik, T., Atle Gulla, J. (2001). Natural Language Analysis for Semantic Document Modeling. In: Bouzeghoub, M., Kedad, Z., Métais, E. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. NLDB 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1959. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45399-7_11

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