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Acquiring collocations for lexical choice between near-synonyms

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Diana Zaiu Inkpen,

Graeme HirstAuthors Info & Claims

ULA '02: Proceedings of the ACL-02 workshop on Unsupervised lexical acquisition - Volume 9

Pages 67 - 76

https://doi.org/10.3115/1118627.1118636

Published: 12 July 2002 Publication History

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We extend a lexical knowledge-base of near-synonym differences with knowledge about their collocational behaviour. This type of knowledge is useful in the process of lexical choice between near-synonyms. We acquire collocations for the near-synonyms of interest from a corpus (only collocations with the appropriate sense and part-of-speech). For each word that collocates with a near-synonym we use a differential test to learn whether the word forms a less-preferred collocation or an anti-collocation with other near-synonyms in the same cluster. For this task we use a much larger corpus (the Web). We also look at associations (longer-distance co-occurrences) as a possible source of learning more about nuances that the near-synonyms may carry.

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