Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: algorithms

1. The original Ehrlich algorithms
   • Karen Ehrlich's original CVA algorithms (for nouns and verbs) (SNePSUL code)

   • The Ehrlich noun-definition algorithm, in English:
     • The Ehrlich noun-definition algorithm in English (by Scott T. Napieralski)

     • Streamlined version of the Ehrlich noun-definition algorithm in English (by William J. Rapaport, Marc K. Broklawski, and Scott T. Napieralski))

2. Revisions of the Ehrlich noun-definition algorithm:
   1. More efficient version of the Ehrlich noun-definition algorithm (by Marc K. Broklawski).
      • Instructions for Running Broklawski's CVA (Noun) Algorithm and SNePS on UB CSE Machines

   2. Noun algorithm, second revision (work by Scott Napieralski)

   3. Noun-definition algorithm (Spring 2003; by Napieralski)
      • paths
      • relations

3. Revisions of the verb algorithm:
   1. Work by Rajeev Sood:
      • Verb algorithm, second revision
      • Sood's final report (PDF)

   2. Work by Justin Del Vecchio:
      • Del Vecchio's webpage
      • Summary of Del Vecchio's summer 2002 work

   3. Verb-definition algorithm (Spring 2003; by Napieralski)

   4. Update and revision by Sutanto & Becker:
      • Sutanto, Lunarso, & Becker, Chris (2004), "Verb Algorithm Revision Final Report" [PDF]
        • figures

      • Verb Algorithm 3.0 Files

      • Becker, Chris (2004), "Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition; Contextual Information in Verb Contexts: From Analysis to Algorithm" [postscript]

   5. Chris Becker's verbalgorithm3.1 (Spring 2005)
      • Becker, Chris (2005), "Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition of Verbs" [PDF]

      • Demos:
        • Conceptual Dependency demo
        • CD demo transcript
        • "perambulate" demo
        • "perambulate" demo transcript

      • Files: All files are in /projects/rapaport/CVA/verbalgorithm3.1/

   6. 
      The verb algorithm in SNeRE:
      • Salazar, Joe (2007), "The Verb Algorithm in the SNePS Rational Engine" [PDF]
      • demo file