Text generation: using discourse strategies and focus constraints to generate natural language text
Text generation: using discourse strategies and focus constraints to generate natural language text
Synonymy and semantic classification
Synonymy and semantic classification
Description directed control: its implications for natural language generation
Readings in natural language processing
A statistical approach to machine translation
Computational Linguistics
Relational models of the lexicon
Relational models of the lexicon
Using a lexicon of canonical graphs in a semantic interpreter
Relational models of the lexicon
Machine translation: a view from the Lexicon
Machine translation: a view from the Lexicon
Improving statistical language model performance with automatically generated word hierarchies
Computational Linguistics
EuroWordNet: a multilingual database with lexical semantic networks
EuroWordNet: a multilingual database with lexical semantic networks
Lexical semantics and knowledge representation in multilingual text generation
Lexical semantics and knowledge representation in multilingual text generation
Explorations in Automatic Thesaurus Discovery
Explorations in Automatic Thesaurus Discovery
Generating Natural Language under Pragmatic Constraints
Generating Natural Language under Pragmatic Constraints
Machine Translation: A Knowledge-Based Approach
Machine Translation: A Knowledge-Based Approach
Target-Text Mediated Interactive Machine Translation
Machine Translation
Logical Structures in the Lexicon
Proceedings of the First SIGLEX Workshop on Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation
Syntax-Driven and Ontology-Driven Lexical Semantics
Proceedings of the First SIGLEX Workshop on Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation
Representation of Semantic Knowledge with Term Subsumption Languages
Proceedings of the First SIGLEX Workshop on Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation
Semantic representations of near-synonyms for automatic lexical choice
Semantic representations of near-synonyms for automatic lexical choice
A computational theory of goal-directed style in syntax
Computational Linguistics
Floating constraints in lexical choice
Computational Linguistics
Automatic word sense discrimination
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on word sense disambiguation
Natural Language Engineering
Building applied natural language generation systems
Natural Language Engineering
Similarity between words computed by spreading activation on an English dictionary
EACL '93 Proceedings of the sixth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Lexical choice criteria in language generation
EACL '93 Proceedings of the sixth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Choosing the word most typical in context using a lexical co-occurrence network
ACL '98 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Automatic retrieval and clustering of similar words
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Multilingual computational semantic lexicons in action: the WYSINNWYG approach to NLP
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Resolving translation mismatches with information flow
ACL '91 Proceedings of the 29th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Contextual word similarity and estimation from sparse data
ACL '93 Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Distributional clustering of English words
ACL '93 Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Using information content to evaluate semantic similarity in a taxonomy
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
APL '02 Proceedings of the 2002 conference on APL: array processing languages: lore, problems, and applications
A model for matching semantic maps between languages (French/English, English/French)
Computational Linguistics
Choosing words in computer-generated weather forecasts
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on connecting language to the world
Acquiring collocations for lexical choice between near-synonyms
ULA '02 Proceedings of the ACL-02 workshop on Unsupervised lexical acquisition - Volume 9
Learning the meaning and usage of time phrases from a parallel text-data corpus
HLT-NAACL-LWM '04 Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on Learning word meaning from non-linguistic data - Volume 6
Population testing: extracting semantic information on near-synonymy from native speakers
HLT-NAACL-LWM '04 Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on Learning word meaning from non-linguistic data - Volume 6
Building and Using a Lexical Knowledge Base of Near-Synonym Differences
Computational Linguistics
Paraphrasing for automatic evaluation
HLT-NAACL '06 Proceedings of the main conference on Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics
A survey on sentiment detection of reviews
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Empirical acquisition of differentiating relations from definitions
ElectricDict '04 Proceedings of the Workshop on Enhancing and Using Electronic Dictionaries
Choosing words in computer-generated weather forecasts
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on connecting language to the world
Synonym extraction using a semantic distance on a dictionary
TextGraphs-1 Proceedings of the First Workshop on Graph Based Methods for Natural Language Processing
Inference of lexical ontologies. The LeOnI methodology
Artificial Intelligence
Automatic sense disambiguation of the near-synonyms in a dictionary entry
CICLing'03 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing
Near-synonym lexical choice in latent semantic space
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Generating phrasal and sentential paraphrases: A survey of data-driven methods
Computational Linguistics
Comparing distributional and mirror translation similarities for extracting synonyms
Canadian AI'11 Proceedings of the 24th Canadian conference on Advances in artificial intelligence
Invariants and variability of synonymy networks: self mediated agreement by confluence
TextGraphs-6 Proceedings of TextGraphs-6: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
Methodologies for the reliable construction of ontological knowledge
ICCS'05 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Conceptual Structures: common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge
Lexical choice via topic adaptation for paraphrasing written language to spoken language
IJCNLP'05 Proceedings of the Second international joint conference on Natural Language Processing
Exploring extensive linguistic feature sets in near-synonym lexical choice
CICLing'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - Volume Part II
Extractive email thread summarization: can we do better than he said she said?
INLG '12 Proceedings of the Seventh International Natural Language Generation Conference
Language Resources and Evaluation
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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We develop a new computational model for representing the fine-grained meanings of near-synonyms and the differences between them. We also develop a lexical-choice process that can decide which of several near-synonyms is most appropriate in a particular situation. This research has direct applications in machine translation and text generation.We first identify the problems of representing near-synonyms in a computational lexicon and show that no previous model adequately accounts for near-synonymy. We then propose a preliminary theory to account for near-synonymy, relying crucially on the notion of granularity of representation, in which the meaning of a word arises out of a context-dependent combination of a context-independent core meaning and a set of explicit differences to its near-synonyms. That is, near-synonyms cluster together.We then develop a clustered model of lexical knowledge, derived from the conventional ontological model. The model cuts off the ontology at a coarse grain, thus avoiding an awkward proliferation of language-dependent concepts in the ontology, yet maintaining the advantages of efficient computation and reasoning. The model groups near-synonyms into subconceptual clusters that are linked to the ontology. A cluster differentiates near-synonyms in terms of fine-grained aspects of denotation, implication, expressed attitude, and style. The model is general enough to account for other types of variation, for instance, in collocational behavior.An efficient, robust, and flexible fine-grained lexical-choice process is a consequence of a clustered model of lexical knowledge. To make it work, we formalize criteria for lexical choice as preferences to express certain concepts with varying indirectness, to express attitudes, and to establish certain styles. The lexical-choice process itself works on two tiers: between clusters and between near-synonyns of clusters. We describe our prototype implementation of the system, called I-Saurus.