In this paper, we improve the extraction of semantic relations between textual elements as it is currently performed by STRING, a hybrid statistical and rule-based Natural Language Processing chain for Portuguese, by targeting whole-part relations (meronymy), that is, a semantic relation between an entity that is perceived as a constituent part of another entity, or a member of a set. In this case, we focus on the type of meronymy involving human entities and body-part nouns. 1998 ACM Subject Classification I.2.7 Natural Language Processing
['Ilia Markov', 'Nuno J. Mamede', 'Jorge Baptista']
Automatic Identification of Whole-Part Relations in Portuguese