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ACL
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Retrieval and Clustering of Similar Words
Bootstrapping semantics from text is one of the greatest challenges in natural language learning. We first define a word similarity measure based on the distributional pattern of ...
Dekang Lin
CORR
1998
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
A Comparison of WordNet and Roget's Taxonomy for Measuring Semantic Similarity
This paper presents the results of using Roget's International Thesaurus as the taxonomy in a semantic similarity measurement task. Four similarity metrics were taken from th...
Michael McHale
RANLP
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Roget's thesaurus and semantic similarity
Roget’s Thesaurus has not been sufficiently appreciated in Natural Language Processing. We show that Roget's and WordNet are birds of a feather. In a few typical tests, we ...
Mario Jarmasz, Stan Szpakowicz
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Disambiguating Hypernym Relations for Roget's Thesaurus
Roget’s Thesaurus is a lexical resource which groups terms by semantic relatedness. It is Roget’s shortcoming that the relations are ambiguous, in that it does not name them; i...
Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz
LREC
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
Mapping Roget's Thesaurus and WordNet to French
Roget's Thesaurus and WordNet are very widely used lexical reference works. We describe an automatic mapping procedure that effectively produces French translations of the te...
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum