%0 Journal Article %1 kilgarriffwhats %A "Kilgarriff, Adam" %A "Yallop, Collin" %D 2000 %K dictionary taxonomy thesaurus %T What’s in a thesaurus? %X We first describe four varieties of thesaurus: (1) Roget-style, produced to help people find synonyms when they are writing; (2) WordNet and EuroWordNet; (3) thesauruses produced (manually) to support information retrieval systems; and (4) thesauruses produced automatically from corpora. We then contrast thesauruses and dictionaries, and present a small experiment in which we look at polysemy in relation to thesaurus structure. It has sometimes been assumed that different dictionary senses for a word that are close in meaning will be near neighbours in the thesaurus. This hypothesis is explored, using as inputs the hierarchical structure of WordNet 1.5 and a mapping between WordNet senses and the senses of another dictionary. The experiment shows that pairs of ‘lexicographically close’ meanings are frequently found in different parts of the hierarchy.

@article{kilgarriffwhats, abstract = {We first describe four varieties of thesaurus: (1) Roget-style, produced to help people find synonyms when they are writing; (2) WordNet and EuroWordNet; (3) thesauruses produced (manually) to support information retrieval systems; and (4) thesauruses produced automatically from corpora. We then contrast thesauruses and dictionaries, and present a small experiment in which we look at polysemy in relation to thesaurus structure. It has sometimes been assumed that different dictionary senses for a word that are close in meaning will be near neighbours in the thesaurus. This hypothesis is explored, using as inputs the hierarchical structure of WordNet 1.5 and a mapping between WordNet senses and the senses of another dictionary. The experiment shows that pairs of ‘lexicographically close’ meanings are frequently found in different parts of the hierarchy.}, added-at = {2021-04-06T10:26:40.000+0200}, author = {"Kilgarriff, Adam" and "Yallop, Collin"}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/238cb662696b7e7cf1d7ceed88a1a8234/valerijajurkas}, interhash = {5a4f48a6f790e91d7a9682176726c334}, intrahash = {38cb662696b7e7cf1d7ceed88a1a8234}, keywords = {dictionary taxonomy thesaurus}, month = {June}, timestamp = {2021-04-06T10:26:40.000+0200}, title = {What’s in a thesaurus?}, year = 2000 }