Definition extraction for glossary creation : a study on extracting definitions for semi-automatic glossary creation in Dutch

The central topic of this thesis is the automatic extraction of definitions from text. Definition extraction can play a role in various applications including the semi-automatic development of glossaries in an eLearning context, which constitutes the main focus of this dissertation. A glossary provides definitions for the most important terms that are discussed in a text. The semi-automatic extraction approach presented in this study consists of two phases. As a first step, a method entirely based on lexico-syntactic patterns has been used to distinguish between definitions and non-definitions... Mehr ...