SW-AG: local context matching for English lexical substitution

  • Authors:
  • George Dahl;Anne-Marie Frassica;Richard Wicentowski

  • Affiliations:
  • Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA;Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA;Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

  • Venue:
  • SemEval '07 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We present two systems that pick the ten most appropriate substitutes for a marked word in a test sentence. The first system scores candidates based on how frequently their local contexts match that of the marked word. The second system, an enhancement to the first, incorporates cosine similarity using unigram features. The core of both systems bypasses intermediate sense selection. Our results show that a knowledge-light, direct method for scoring potential replacements is viable.