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Preferential presentation of Japanese near-synonyms using definition statements

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Hiroyuki Okamoto,

Kengo Sato,

Hiroaki SaitoAuthors Info & Claims

PARAPHRASE '03: Proceedings of the second international workshop on Paraphrasing - Volume 16

Pages 17 - 24

https://doi.org/10.3115/1118984.1118987

Published: 11 July 2003 Publication History

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This paper proposes a new method of ranking near-synonyms ordered by their suitability of nuances in a particular context. Our method distincts near-synonyms by semantic features extracted from their definition statements in an ordinary dictionary, and ranks them by the types of features and a particular context. Our method is an initial step to achieve a semantic paraphrase system for authoring support.

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Viriyayudhakorn KTheeramunkong TNattee CSupnithi TOkumura M(2009)Automatic extraction of Thai-English term translations and synonyms from medical web using iterative candidate generation with association measuresProceedings of the 13th Pacific-Asia international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining: new frontiers in applied data mining10.5555/1883700.1883711(141-155)Online publication date: 27-Apr-2009
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PARAPHRASE '03: Proceedings of the second international workshop on Paraphrasing - Volume 16

July 2003

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Kentaro Inui
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
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Ulf Hermjakob
USC Information Science Institute, USA

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Viriyayudhakorn KTheeramunkong TNattee CSupnithi TOkumura M(2009)Automatic extraction of Thai-English term translations and synonyms from medical web using iterative candidate generation with association measuresProceedings of the 13th Pacific-Asia international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining: new frontiers in applied data mining10.5555/1883700.1883711(141-155)Online publication date: 27-Apr-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1883700.1883711

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