GROUPING DICTIONARY SYNONYMS IN SENSE COMPONENTS
Awada Ali, May Dehayni · 2009
In this paper, a study of the synonymy in a dictionary of verbs is presented and a new approach to solve the polysemy problem is proposed. More precisely, it is about dispatching verb synonyms in groups called “sense components”, each corresponding to a verb meaning. The dictionary is represented as a graph and the sense component is obtained by studying circuits in this graph. This study is based on the following idea: verbs on a circuit may/must belong to the same component of sense. Our study has resulted in a graphical interface for automatic dictionary exploitation.