The Book Word Thesaurus

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Multifunction Thesaurus For Russian Word Processing

A new type of thesaurus for word processing is proposed. It comprises 7 semantic and 8 syntagmatic types of links between Russian words and collocations. The original version now includes ca. 76,000 basic dictionary entries, 660,000 semantic and 292,000 syntagmatic links, English interface, and communication with any text editor. Methods of delivery enriching are used based on generic and synon...

Determining Word Sense Dominance Using a Thesaurus

The degree of dominance of a sense of a word is the proportion of occurrences of that sense in text. We propose four new methods to accurately determine word sense dominance using raw text and a published thesaurus. Unlike the McCarthy et al. (2004) system, these methods can be used on relatively small target texts, without the need for a similarly-sensedistributed auxiliary text. We perform an...

Text Relatedness Based on a Word Thesaurus

The computation of relatedness between two fragments of text in an automated manner requires taking into account a wide range of factors pertaining to the meaning the two fragments convey, and the pairwise relations between their words. Without doubt, a measure of relatedness between text segments must take into account both the lexical and the semantic relatedness between words. Such a measure...

Book Reviews: The Significance of Word Lists

The idea that statistical significance tests can be applied to the task of determining re-latedness of languages is known to provoke rather emotional reactions. "Fallacious," "specious," "circular, .... superficially plausible but in fact utterly unreliable," "exhibit-ing innumeracy to a fatal degree"-these are epithets actually used by researchers to describe one another's work in this area. W...