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  <Title>ON THE ACQUISITION OF CONCEPTUAL DEFINITIONS VIA TEXTUAL MODELLING OF MEANING PARAPHRASES</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper a method has been described for transforming the conceptual information of a traditional meaning dictionary by means of textual modelling into a suitable representation for automatic semantic text processing. The concept definitions acquired can be used for content and text structure ba~d retrieval (i.e. access to concepts or relevant text passages) or for the update of the dictionary (cf. \[Firzlaff/ Haenelt 92\]). The method proposed is also used for automatic text analysis, and although it requires a basic set of dictionary entries to be transformed by manual analysis, its goal is to allow for an automatic continuation of this transformation. So, if the basic vocabulary of meaning paraphrases has been acquired it should be possible to analyze the majority of meaning paraphrases automatically. The conceptual definitions acquired from meaning paraphrases then can serve as a basis for analyzing further descriptive texts such as e.g. encyclopedias. In this sense the method described in this paper is meant to be a contribution towatvls the automatic bootstrapping of knowledge base construction.</Paragraph>
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