%0 Conference Paper %1 freitag2005experiments %A Freitag, Dayne %A Blume, Matthias %A Byrnes, John %A Chow, Edmond %A Kapadia, Sadik %A Rohwer, Richard %A Wang, Zhiqiang %B Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning %C Stroudsburg, PA, USA %D 2005 %I Association for Computational Linguistics %K evaluation semantics %P 25--32 %T New Experiments in Distributional Representations of Synonymy %U http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1706543.1706548 %X Recent work on the problem of detecting synonymy through corpus analysis has used the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) as a benchmark. However, this test involves as few as 80 questions, prompting questions regarding the statistical significance of reported results. We overcome this limitation by generating a TOEFL-like test using WordNet, containing thousands of questions and composed only of words occurring with sufficient corpus frequency to support sound distributional comparisons. Experiments with this test lead us to a similarity measure which significantly outperforms the best proposed to date. Analysis suggests that a strength of this measure is its relative robustness against polysemy.

@inproceedings{freitag2005experiments, abstract = {Recent work on the problem of detecting synonymy through corpus analysis has used the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) as a benchmark. However, this test involves as few as 80 questions, prompting questions regarding the statistical significance of reported results. We overcome this limitation by generating a TOEFL-like test using WordNet, containing thousands of questions and composed only of words occurring with sufficient corpus frequency to support sound distributional comparisons. Experiments with this test lead us to a similarity measure which significantly outperforms the best proposed to date. Analysis suggests that a strength of this measure is its relative robustness against polysemy.}, acmid = {1706548}, added-at = {2017-12-17T13:01:21.000+0100}, address = {Stroudsburg, PA, USA}, author = {Freitag, Dayne and Blume, Matthias and Byrnes, John and Chow, Edmond and Kapadia, Sadik and Rohwer, Richard and Wang, Zhiqiang}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2c715915ca77e2184214723b41ca42374/thoni}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning}, description = {New experiments in distributional representations of synonymy}, interhash = {28a24388a3ddb1cc31d70d1e7602f3da}, intrahash = {c715915ca77e2184214723b41ca42374}, keywords = {evaluation semantics}, location = {Ann Arbor, Michigan}, numpages = {8}, pages = {25--32}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, series = {CONLL '05}, timestamp = {2017-12-17T13:01:21.000+0100}, title = {New Experiments in Distributional Representations of Synonymy}, url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1706543.1706548}, year = 2005 }