Identifying synonyms among distributionally similar words

Authors:
Dekang Lin;Shaojun Zhao;Lijuan Qin;Ming Zhou
Affiliations:
Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada;Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada;Microsoft Research Asia, Hai Dian District, Beijing, China;Microsoft Research Asia, Hai Dian District, Beijing, China
Venue:
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Year:
2003

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Abstract

There have been many proposals to compute similarities between words based on their distributions in contexts. However, these approaches do not distinguish between synonyms and antonyms. We present two methods for identifying synonyms among distributionally similar words.