Using the Wiktionary graph structure for synonym detection

Authors:
Timothy Weale;Chris Brew;Eric Fosler-Lussier
Affiliations:
The Ohio State University;The Ohio State University;The Ohio State University
Venue:
People's Web '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on The People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper presents our work on using the graph structure of Wiktionary for synonym detection. We implement semantic relatedness metrics using both a direct measure of information flow on the graph and a comparison of the list of vertices found to be "close" to a given vertex. Our algorithms, evaluated on ESL 50, TOEFL 80 and RDWP 300 data sets, perform better than or comparable to existing semantic relatedness measures.