Adapting a synonym database to specific domains

Authors:
Davide Turcato;Fred Popowich;Janine Toole;Dan Fass;Devlan Nicholson;Gordon Tisher
Affiliations:
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada;Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada;Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada;Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada;Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada;Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Venue:
RANLPIR '00 Proceedings of the ACL-2000 workshop on Recent advances in natural language processing and information retrieval: held in conjunction with the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 11
Year:
2000

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Abstract

This paper describes a method for adapting a general purpose synonym database, like WordNet, to a specific domain, where only a subset of the synonymy relations defined in the general database hold. The method adopts an eliminative approach, based on incrementally pruning the original database. The method is based on a preliminary manual pruning phase and an algorithm for automatically pruning the database. This method has been implemented and used for an Information Retrieval system in the aviation domain.