Evaluation of unsupervised semantic mapping of natural language with Leximancer concept mapping

Behav Res Methods. 2006 May;38(2):262-79. doi: 10.3758/bf03192778.

Abstract

The Leximancer system is a relatively new method for transforming lexical co-occurrence information from natural language into semantic patterns in a nunsupervised manner. It employs two stages of co-occurrence information extraction-semantic and relational-using a different algorithm for each stage. The algorithms used are statistical, but they employ nonlinear dynamics and machine learning. This article is an attempt to validate the output of Leximancer, using a set of evaluation criteria taken from content analysis that are appropriate for knowledge discovery tasks.

MeSH terms

  • Equipment Design
  • Humans
  • Language*
  • Linguistics / instrumentation*
  • Semantics*