A statistical model for near-synonym choice

ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Inkpen, Diana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Intelligent thesaurus; Lexical choice; Near synonyms; Semantic similarity; Web as a corpus

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT THESAURUS; LEXICAL CHOICE; NEAR-SYNONYMS; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; WEB AS A CORPUS;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS; THESAURI; WORLD WIDE WEB;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 33846979170     PISSN: 15504875     EISSN: 15504883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1217098.1217100     Document Type: Article

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