Graph based similarity measures for synonym extraction from parsed text

  • Authors:
  • Einat Minkov;William W. Cohen

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • TextGraphs-7 '12 Workshop Proceedings of TextGraphs-7 on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We learn graph-based similarity measures for the task of extracting word synonyms from a corpus of parsed text. A constrained graph walk variant that has been successfully applied in the past in similar settings is shown to outperform a state-of-the-art syntactic vector-based approach on this task. Further, we show that learning specialized similarity measures for different word types is advantageous.