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  <Title>Building Accurate Semantic Taxonomies from Monolingual MRDs</Title>
  <Section position="7" start_page="1108" end_page="1108" type="concl">
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6 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We proposed a novel methodology which combines several structured lexical knowledge resources for acquiring the most important genus terms of a monolingual dictionary for a given semantic primitive. Our approach for building LKBs is mainly descriptive (the main source of knowledge is MRDs), but a minimal prescribed structure is provided (the semantic primitives of the LKB). Using the most relevant genus terms for a particular semantic primitive and applying a filtering process, we presented a method to construct fully automatically taxonomies from any conventional dictionary. This approach differs from previous ones because we are considering senses as lexical units of the LKB (e.g., in contrast to Richardson 97 who links words) and the mixed methodology applied (e.g, the complete descriptive approach of Bruce et al. 92).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The results show that the construction of taxonomies using lexical resources is not limited to highly structured MRDs. Applying appropriate techniques, conventional dictionaries such as DGILE could be useful resources for building automatically substantial pieces of an LKB.</Paragraph>
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