Using an on-line dictionary to extract a list of sense-disambiguated synonyms

  • Authors:
  • G. Jan Wilms

  • Affiliations:
  • Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS

  • Venue:
  • ACM-SE 30 Proceedings of the 30th annual Southeast regional conference
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

The feasibility of extracting both explicit and implicit synonym references from a machine readable dictionary is investigated; the extracted synonyms, both symmetric and asymmetric, are then sense-disambiguated. At the same time lemma numbers and unbound parts-of-speech of synonyms become instantiated. The dictionary source is also a resource for parsing the definitions, but its comprehensiveness is often a mixed blessing as a disambiguation tool.