HMMs, GRs, and N-Grams as Lexical Substitution Techniques -- Are They Portable to Other Languages?
Judita Preiss, Andrew Coonce, Brittany Baker · 2009
We introduce a number of novel techniques to lexical substitution, including an application of the Forward-Backward algorithm, a grammatical relation based similarity measure, and a modified form of n-gram matching. We test these techniques on the Semeval-2007 lexical substitution data [McCarthy and Navigli, 2007], to demonstrate their competitive performance. We create a similar (small scale) dataset for Czech, and our evaluation demonstrates language independence of the techniques.