Probing Semantic Relations -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- About the Authors -- Probing semantic relations -- Pattern-based Extraction Dimensions -- Evaluation -- Terminological issues -- Contributions to this volume -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Web-based extraction of semantic relation instances for terminology work -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A closer look at KPs -- 3. Discovering and filtering KPs -- 4. Extracting and ranking instances -- 4.1 Reliability measures -- 4.2 Heuristics -- 5. Evaluation -- 5.1 Setup and purpose -- 5.2 Interannotator (dis)agreement -- 5.3 Example output -- 5.4 Performance of ranking schemes -- 5.5 Augmenting the UMLS -- 6. KP portability -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Designing and evaluating patterns for relation acquisition from texts with Caméléon -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The state of the art: Pattern-based knowledge identification -- 2.1 Pattern-based approaches: A cross-disciplinary matter -- 2.2 Pattern-based identification of semantic relations -- 3. A pattern-based method for a semantic relation identification -- 3.1 Background and motivations -- 3.2 Overview of the approach -- 3.3 Step 1: Project pattern definition -- 3.4 Step 2: Enriching the conceptual model -- 3.5 Towards an evaluation of Caméléon -- 4. How the tool supports relation extraction -- 4.1 Setting up a new project -- 4.2 Pattern design and adaptation -- 4.3 Pattern evaluation -- 4.4 Text fragment selection -- 4.5 Model enrichment -- 5. Method and Corpora for evaluating the set of knowledge patterns -- 5.1 Pattern design by using previous work -- 5.2 Varied corpora -- 5.3 Evaluating the patterns -- 6. Results -- 6.1 Definition patterns -- 6.2 Taxonomic and other patterns -- 7. Discussion -- 7.1 Pattern elaboration -- 7.2 What is a "generic pattern"?.

7.3 Needed skills to perform the evaluation task -- 7.4 Need for documenting patterns -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Definitional verbal patterns for semantic relation extraction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The role of definitional contexts for the extraction of semantic relations -- 2.1 Finding semantic relations in definitions -- 2.2 Semantic relations and corpora -- 2.3 Definitional knowledge extraction -- 3. Definitional verbal patterns related to specific semantic relationships -- 3.1 Analytic verbal patterns -- 3.2 Functional verbal patterns -- 3.3 Meronymic and extensional verbal patterns -- 3.4 Synonymic verbal patterns -- 3.5 Structural classification -- 4. ECODE, a definitional context extraction system -- 4.1 Corpus -- 4.2 Extraction of occurrences of definitional verbal patterns -- 4.3 Filtering of non-relevant contexts -- 4.4 Identifying constitutive elements -- 4.5 Evaluation -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Patrones léxicos para la extracción de conceptos vinculados por la relación parte-todo en español -- 1. Introducción -- 2. Las relaciones conceptuales -- 2.1 La relación parte-todo y su clasificación -- 2.2 Relaciones similares a la relación parte-todo -- 3. Extracción de relaciones conceptuales mediante patrones -- 4. Una metodología basada en corpus para detectar patrones léxicos -- 4.1 Corpus utilizado -- 4.2 Fases del trabajo empírico -- 5. Resultados -- 6. Conclusiones -- Notes -- Referencias -- Anexo 1. Clasificación de los términos vinculados por la relación parte-todo -- Anexo 2. Catálogo de patrones léxicos -- Expressions of uncertainty in candidate knowledge-rich contexts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 Knowledge patterns -- 2.2 Expressions of uncertainty -- 3. Relations -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Quantification -- 5.2 Hedging -- 5.3 Modal verbs -- 5.4 Negation.

6. Conclusions and future work -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Sources of examples -- Index -- The series Benjamins Current Topics.