RE: [Corpora-List] semantic similarity

From: Aristomenis Thanopoulos (aristom@wcl.ee.upatras.gr)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2005 - 23:53:56 MET

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    Dear Adam and All

    That's true of course for English and a few more languages but not at all
    for the majority of contemporary languages for which syntactic parsers are
    still unreliable or simply non-existent...

    Aris Thanopoulos
    University of Patras, Greece

    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no] On
    Behalf Of Adam Kilgarriff
    Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:32 PM
    To: 'Jana Diesner'; CORPORA@hd.uib.no
    Subject: RE: [Corpora-List] semantic similarity

    Jana

    > The approach must not require POS tagging

    whyever not? Ten years ago there was an excuse for ignoring syntax (no
    tools, too slow to run over big corpora, expensive) but I don't think there
    is any more.

    You get much better results if you respect syntax (see eg thesaurus at
    www.sketchengine.co.uk which shallow-parses and uses Dekang Lin's
    similiarity measure)

    Adam Kilgarriff



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