Roget’s thesaurus as a lexical resource for natural language processing (2003)
| Venue: | University of Ottowa |
| Citations: | 8 - 0 self |
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@TECHREPORT{Jarmasz03roget’sthesaurus,
author = {Mario Jarmasz},
title = {Roget’s thesaurus as a lexical resource for natural language processing},
institution = {University of Ottowa},
year = {2003}
}
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Abstract
WordNet proved that it is possible to construct a large-scale electronic lexical database on the principles of lexical semantics. It has been accepted and used extensively by computational linguists ever since it was released. Some of its applications include information retrieval, language generation, question answering, text categorization, text classification and word sense disambiguation. Inspired by WordNet's success, we propose as an alternative a similar resource, based on the 1987 Penguin edition of Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases. Peter Mark Roget published his first Thesaurus over 150 years ago. Countless writers, orators and students of the English language have used it. Computational linguists have employed Roget’s for almost 50 years in Natural Language Processing. Some of the tasks they have used it for include machine translation, computing lexical cohesion in texts and constructing databases that can infer common sense knowledge. This dissertation presents Roget’s merits by explaining what it really is and how it has been used, while comparing its applications to those of WordNet. The NLP community has hesitated in accepting Roget’s Thesaurus because a proper machinetractable version was not available.
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