
Explorations in Automatic Thesaurus Discovery
Gregory Grefenstette(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 21. November 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIII, 305 pages
978-1-4613-6167-1 (ISBN)
Description
Explorations in Automatic Thesaurus Discovery
presents an automated method for creating a first-draft thesaurus from raw text. It describes natural processing steps of tokenization, surface syntactic analysis, and syntactic attribute extraction. From these attributes, word and term similarity is calculated and a thesaurus is created showing important common terms and their relation to each other, common verb--noun pairings, common expressions, and word family members.
The techniques are tested on twenty different corpora ranging from baseball newsgroups, assassination archives, medical X-ray reports, abstracts on AIDS, to encyclopedia articles on animals, even on the text of the book itself. The corpora range from 40,000 to 6 million characters of text, and results are presented for each in the Appendix.
The methods described in the book have undergone extensive evaluation. Their time and space complexity are shown to be modest. The results are shown to converge to a stable state as the corpus grows. The similarities calculated are compared to those produced by psychological testing. A method of evaluation using Artificial Synonyms is tested. Gold Standards evaluation show that techniques significantly outperform non-linguistic-based techniques for the most important words in corpora.
Explorations in Automatic Thesaurus Discovery includes applications to the fields of information retrieval using established testbeds, existing thesaural enrichment, semantic analysis. Also included are applications showing how to create, implement, and test a first-draft thesaurus.
The techniques are tested on twenty different corpora ranging from baseball newsgroups, assassination archives, medical X-ray reports, abstracts on AIDS, to encyclopedia articles on animals, even on the text of the book itself. The corpora range from 40,000 to 6 million characters of text, and results are presented for each in the Appendix.
The methods described in the book have undergone extensive evaluation. Their time and space complexity are shown to be modest. The results are shown to converge to a stable state as the corpus grows. The similarities calculated are compared to those produced by psychological testing. A method of evaluation using Artificial Synonyms is tested. Gold Standards evaluation show that techniques significantly outperform non-linguistic-based techniques for the most important words in corpora.
Explorations in Automatic Thesaurus Discovery includes applications to the fields of information retrieval using established testbeds, existing thesaural enrichment, semantic analysis. Also included are applications showing how to create, implement, and test a first-draft thesaurus.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XIII, 305 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
493 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4613-6167-1 (9781461361671)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4615-2710-7
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Gregory Grefenstette
Explorations in Automatic Thesaurus Discovery
Book
07/1994
Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Content
1 INTRODUCTION.- 2 SEMANTIC EXTRACTION.- 2.1 Historical Overview.- 2.2 Cognitive Science Approaches.- 2.3 Recycling Approaches.- 2.4 Knowledge-Poor Approaches.- 3 SEXTANT.- 3.1 Philosophy.- 3.2 Methodology.- 3.3 Other examples.- 3.4 Discussion.- 4 EVALUATION.- 4.1 Deese Antonyms Discovery.- 4.2 Artificial Synonyms.- 4.3 Gold Standards Evaluations.- 4.4 Webster's 7th.- 4.5 Syntactic vs. Document Co-occurrence.- 4.6 Summary.- 5 APPLICATIONS.- 5.1 Query Expansion.- 5.2 Thesaurus enrichment.- 5.3 Word Meaning Clustering.- 5.4 Automatic Thesaurus Construction.- 5.5 Discussion and Summary.- 6 CONCLUSION.- 6.1 Summary.- 6.2 Criticisms.- 6.3 Future Directions.- 6.4 Vision.- 1 PREPROCESSORS.- 2 WEBSTER STOPWORD LIST.- 3 SIMILARITY LIST.- 4 SEMANTIC CLUSTERING.- 5 AUTOMATIC THESAURUS GENERATION.- 6 CORPORA TREATED.- 6.1 ADI.- 6.2 AI.- 6.3 AIDS.- 6.4 ANIMALS.- 6.5 BASEBALL.- 6.6 BROWN.- 6.7 CACM.- 6.8 CISI.- 6.9 CRAN.- 6.10 HARVARD.- 6.11 JFK.- 6.12 MED.- 6.13 MERGERS.- 6.14 MOBYDICK.- 6.15 NEJM.- 6.16 NPL.- 6.17 SPORTS.- 6.18 TIME.- 6.19 XRAY.- 6.20 THESIS.