Synonym Extraction Algorithm

A Synonym Recognition Task is a information extraction algorithm that can solve a Synonym Extraction Task.

• See PMI-IR Algorithm, Word Sense Disambiguation Algorithm, Synonym Extraction System.

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References

2001

• (Turney, 2001) ⇒ Peter D. Turney. (2001). “Mining the Web for Synonyms: PMI-IR versus LSA on TOEFL.” In: Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2001). doi:10.1007/3-540-44795-4_42
  • QUOTE: This paper introduces a simple unsupervised learning algorithm for recognizing synonyms. The task of recognizing synonyms is, given a problem word and a set of alternative words, choose the member from the set of alternative words that is most similar in meaning to the problem word.

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