Finding synonyms using automatic word alignment and measures of distributional similarity

COLING/ACL 2006 - 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference Poster Sessions

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 866-873

  van der Plas, Lonneke ^a   Tiedemann, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

DISTRIBUTIONAL SIMILARITIES; HIGH-PRECISION; HYPERNYMS; HYPONYMS; MULTIPLE LANGUAGES; PARALLEL CORPORA; PRECISION AND RECALL; SEMANTICALLY-RELATED WORDS; SYNTAX-BASED APPROACH; WORD ALIGNMENT;

SYNTACTICS;

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