Combining Lexical Resources for Contextual Synonym Expansion
Ravi Sinha, Rada F. Mihalcea · University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) · 2009
In this paper, we experiment with the task of contextual synonym expansion, and com-pare the benefits of combining multiple lexical resources using both unsupervised and super-vised approaches. Overall, the results obtained through the combination of several resources ex-ceed the current state-of-the-art when selecting the best synonym for a given target word, and place second when selecting the top ten syn-onyms, thus demonstrating the usefulness of the approach.