Towards automatic enrichment of standardized electronic dictionaries by semantic classes

In this paper we propose an approach for the automatic enrichment of standardized electronic dictionaries by the semantic classes. This approach consists of three phases. The first phase treat the semantic classification process founded on the studies of Gaston Gross. The second phase profites from the existed subject fields in the dictionary's lexical entries in order to attribute the suitable semantic classes. The final phase realizes syntactic analyses of the textual content of meanings’s lexical entries. This phase, aims to refine the subject field based enrichment and also treats the non enriched meanings in the second phase. In addition, it attributes the same semantic classes for the synonym meanings. We used an available standardized Arabic dictionary to tested the performance of the proposed approach.

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