Exploring patterns in dictionary definitions for synonym extraction

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 313-342

  Wang, Tong ^a   Hirst, Graeme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION; EVALUATION RESULTS; MACHINE-READABLE DICTIONARIES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RULE-BASED METHOD; SEMANTICALLY-RELATED WORDS;

EXPERIMENTS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84872026909     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324911000210     Document Type: Article

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