Automatic retrieval and clustering of similar words
D. Lin. Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics, page 768--774. Morristown, NJ, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, (1998)
Abstract
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 words. The similarity measure allows us to construct a thesaurus using a parsed corpus. We then present a new evaluation methodology for the automatically constructed thesaurus. The evaluation results show that the thesaurus is significantly closer to WordNet than Roget Thesaurus is.
Description
Automatic retrieval and clustering of similar words
