Lecture � AIRG, Pustejovsky

Greg Detre

Tuesday, December 10, 2002

 

NL information servers

medstract.org

they�re looking at the domain of bioinformatics

enormous corpus � 10m papers, 40,000/month, 36GB

also clinical databases, microarray databases, proteanic databases

building an ontology of entities, events/processes etc.

they�re trying to automaticise the process of adding structure at lower levels than a given leaf

siblings on the tree are not necessarily exclusive � this is part of the type mismatch problem � they could just be different views of the same thing

 

 

 

 

Questions

MB learning???

hyperbolic visualisation??? support vector graphics???

generics???