From Business Corpus to Business Lexicon*

A Business Model to Detect Disease Outbreaks

Introduction: Every year several disease outbreaks, such as influenza-like illnesses (ILI) and other contagious illnesses, impose various costs to public and non-government agencies. Most of these expenses are due to not being ready to handle such disease outbreaks. An appropriate preparation will reduce the expenses. A system that is able to recognize these outbreaks can earn ...

From bench to business.

S o you have a hot discovery, the paper has been published,and the patent has been filed.You may even have discussed setting up a business venture to exploit this advance with your University’s technology-transfer office.But what are the chances of commercial success? The odds are seemingly stacked against you.Even in biomaterials — a field with a long history in technology transfer — less than...

Business to Business Integration

Establishing Base Lexicon from Corpus

From Corpus to lexicon: from contexts to semantic features

Several natural language applications need domain-dependent semantic lexicons. However, these lexicons are not available for every domain, and their buildings must therefore be (as much as possible) automated. In this paper, we present and experiment a corpus-based methodology to automatically build a componential representation of meaning in a lexicon (Rastier 1996), without any preliminary le...