Generating SD-Rules in the SPECIALIST Lexical Tools - Optimization for Suffix Derivation Rule Set

Chris J. Lu, Destinee Tormey, Lynn McCreedy, Allen C. Browne

2016

Abstract

Suffix derivations (SDs) are used with query expansion in concept mapping as an effective Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique to improve recall without sacrificing precision. A systematic approach was proposed to generate derivations in the SPECIALIST Lexical Tools in which SD candidate rules were used to retrieve SD-pairs from the SPECIALIST Lexicon (Lu et al., 2012). Good SD candidate rules are gathered as SD-Rules in Lexical Tools for generating SDs that are not known to the Lexicon. This paper describes a methodology to select an optimized SD-Rule set that meets our requirement of 95\% system precision with best system performance from SD candidate rules. The results of the latest three releases of Lexical Tools show: 1) system precision and recall of selected SD-Rules are above 95\%. 2) a consistency between a computational linguistic approach and traditional linguistic knowledge for selecting the best Parent-Child rules. 3) a consistent approach yielding similar SD-Rule sets and system performance. Ultimately, it results in better precision and recall for NLP applications using Lexical Tools derivational related flow components.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lu C., Tormey D., McCreedy L. and Browne A. (2016). Generating SD-Rules in the SPECIALIST Lexical Tools - Optimization for Suffix Derivation Rule Set . In Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-170-0, pages 353-358. DOI: 10.5220/0005731303530358

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf16,
author={Chris J. Lu and Destinee Tormey and Lynn McCreedy and Allen C. Browne},
title={Generating SD-Rules in the SPECIALIST Lexical Tools - Optimization for Suffix Derivation Rule Set},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={353-358},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005731303530358},
isbn={978-989-758-170-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2016)
TI - Generating SD-Rules in the SPECIALIST Lexical Tools - Optimization for Suffix Derivation Rule Set
SN - 978-989-758-170-0
AU - Lu C.
AU - Tormey D.
AU - McCreedy L.
AU - Browne A.
PY - 2016
SP - 353
EP - 358
DO - 10.5220/0005731303530358