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Discovery of Definition Patterns by Compressing Dictionary Sentences

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This paper proposes an automatic method to discover definition patterns from an ordinary dictionary. There are frequent patterns to describe words and concepts in a ordinary dictionary. Each definition pattern gives a set of similar words and can be used as a template to clarify distinctions among them. To discover these definition patterns, we convert definition sentences into tree structures, and compress them using the MDL principle. The experiment on a Japanese children dictionary is reported, showing the effectiveness of our method.

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  1. Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan

    Masatoshi Tsuchiya & Satoshi Sato

  2. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Tokyo University, Japan

    Sadao Kurohashi

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  1. Masatoshi Tsuchiya
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  1. Department of Informatics, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, 812-8581, Fukuoka, Japan

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Tsuchiya, M., Kurohashi, S., Sato, S. (2002). Discovery of Definition Patterns by Compressing Dictionary Sentences. In: Arikawa, S., Shinohara, A. (eds) Progress in Discovery Science. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2281. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45884-0_19

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