Re: [Corpora-List] Summary: Specificty and Similarity of Words

From: Nuno Seco (nseco@xldb.di.fc.ul.pt)
Date: Fri Mar 18 2005 - 11:41:16 MET

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    I have recently found this paper:
    http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV38Yang.pdf

    I've only skimmed through it, but it also seems relevant.

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    Nuno
    

    On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 19:17 +0200, Ergin Altintas wrote: > Dear corpra members; > > Sorry for my sending of the same message describing my questions about > Specificty and Similarity of Words three times (on Wed, 16 Mar 2005 > 19:56:58 +0200). It was because of an error report returned by the > maillist server which I couldn't understand because it wasn't in > English. > > Any way there were 3 answers for my questions: > > 1. Nuno Seco referred to a work of his own. And this is what I was > exactly looking for. I had a review of the paper, good work. > http://afflatus.ucd.ie/~ebbis/seco.pdf > > 2. Mark Sanderson noted IDF and Karen Sparck Jones's ideas about > specificty. They were mainly dependent on large copora. And that was > not what I was looking for (yes I had not mentioned about "no > corpora"). I wasnt famialiar to IDF and for the ones who consider to > learn more about IDF's I think I should sahre this brief page having > links to original resources is located here: > http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~ser/idf.html > > 3. Ronald P. Reck said, he used Ted Pedersen's > WordNet::Similarity package sucessfully. Yes. I also use this > package and its great to have such open source projects for a good > starts in CL. (But in fact this wasn't an answer for my questions) > http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/similarity.html > > I am still looking for similar work as in (1). > > And one of my questions is not aswered yet exactly: > > How should similarity measures be evaluated? Is it enough to show the > correlation to human judgements or shall we give practical > results of application areas? (like WSD, IR, etc...) > > Thanks to everyone who had interest in my questions. > > Best Wishes, > > > Ergin ALTINTAS > Turkish Naval Academy



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