Author: Zhai C.
Title: Exploiting context to identify lexical atoms - A statistical view of linguistic context

Abstract:
Interpretation of natural language is inherently context-sensitive. Most words in natural language are ambiguous and their meaning is heavily dependent on
the linguistic context in which they are used. The study of lexical semantics can not be separated from the notion of context. This paper takes a contextual
approach to lexical semantics and studies the linguistic context of lexical atoms, or "sticky" phrases such as "hot dog". Since such lexical atoms may occur
frequently in unrestricted natural language text, recognizing them is crucial for understanding naturally-occuring text. The paper proposes several heuristics
approaches to exploiting the linguistic context to identify lexical atoms from arbitrary natural language text.

In: Proceedings of the International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT-97), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February
4-6, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Ed., pp. 119-129.

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