Abstract: A method for determining the degree to which two or more lexical items belonging to a predefined corpus of text in any given language are semantically related to each other. The method involvesa) the retrieval from the said text corpus of a set of sentences in which one or more of the given two or more lexical items appear,b) the parsing, with the aid of a suitable parsing system, of each of the sentences retrieved, in order to determine the syntactic dependency structure of each of the said sentences,c) for each sentence retrieved, determining from the obtained syntactic dependency structure the contextual relations which the given lexical items have in that sentence, i.e.

Abstract: Method for unambiguously coding multiple parsing analyses of a natural language word sequence in dependency grammar in which dependencies are defined between pairs of words, each pair consisting of a superordinate word or governor and a thereto related word or dependent. For each word in the sequence a word index is determined, representing the rank of order of said word in the sequence. All possible dependents of each word are determined as well as the relation between the word and the dependents using a parsing algorithm in combination with a grammar and a dictionary in which all words of the language are stored together with their syntactic interpretation and an interpretation index, representing the rank order of the syntactic interpretation of the word in the dictionary in order to distinguish between multiple syntactic interpretations of said word.