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Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 765))

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The most valuable treasure of humankind is knowledge. Computers have a better capability than humans to handle great amounts of information: search for information, apply simple inference, and look for answers to questions…. However, our treasure, which exists in the form of natural language texts—news boards, newspapers, and books in digital libraries and the Internet—is not understandable to computers; they deal with it as a chain of letters and not as knowledge.

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    Based on [85].

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    Based on [85].

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    If there is no vicious circle, then some words are not defined [84].

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Gelbukh, A., Calvo, H. (2018). Introduction. In: Automatic Syntactic Analysis Based on Selectional Preferences. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 765. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74054-6_1

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