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“Beijing Frowns and Washington Pays Close Attention” Computer Processing of Relations between Geographical Proper Names in Foreign Affairs

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Natural Language Processing and Information Systems (NLDB 2000)

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We present results of the project Prolex. The aim of the project is the automated analysis of proper names, especially a description of relations between different proper names in a text. The system currently works with geographical proper names (place names, derived adjectives and names of inhabitants) in French.

It consists of a database containing specific types of proper names and relations between the different names. Using these names and relations, the program can group the proper names appearing in a text that may belong together (such as Beijing-Chinese-Pekinese-China; American-United States-Washington). This is done by constructing an association matrix between them and by computing the transitive closure of this Boolean matrix. The method is explained with an example.

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  1. CERMSEM, Université Paris 1, 12, place du Panthéon, 75005, Paris, France

    Odile Piton

  2. LI/E3i-University of Tours, 64 avenue Jean-Portalis, F37200, Tours, France

    Denis Maurel

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  1. PRiSM Laboratory, University of Versailles, 45 av.des Etats-Unis, 78035, Paris, France

    Mokrane Bouzeghoub  & Zoubida Kedad  & 

  2. CNAM, CEDRIC Laboratory, 292 rue Saint-Martin, 75003, Paris

    Elisabeth Métais

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Piton, O., Maurel, D. (2001). “Beijing Frowns and Washington Pays Close Attention” Computer Processing of Relations between Geographical Proper Names in Foreign Affairs. 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_6

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