Grouping Synonyms by Definitions
Ingrid Falk (INRIA Lorraine - LORIA), Claire Gardent (INRIA Lorraine -, LORIA), Evelyne Jacquey (ATILF), Fabienne Venant (INRIA Lorraine - LORIA)

TL;DR
This paper introduces a method for categorizing French synonyms based on dictionary-defined senses, evaluated against expert judgments, and compares it with related lexical acquisition techniques.
Contribution
The paper presents a novel automatic approach to group synonyms by senses using a large French dictionary and multiple synonym sources, with an evaluation against human annotations.
Findings
Automatic method achieves 67% precision and 71% recall.
Inter-annotator agreement varies from 67% to 88%.
Compared with related lexical acquisition methods.
Abstract
We present a method for grouping the synonyms of a lemma according to its dictionary senses. The senses are defined by a large machine readable dictionary for French, the TLFi (Tr\'esor de la langue fran\c{c}aise informatis\'e) and the synonyms are given by 5 synonym dictionaries (also for French). To evaluate the proposed method, we manually constructed a gold standard where for each (word, definition) pair and given the set of synonyms defined for that word by the 5 synonym dictionaries, 4 lexicographers specified the set of synonyms they judge adequate. While inter-annotator agreement ranges on that task from 67% to at best 88% depending on the annotator pair and on the synonym dictionary being considered, the automatic procedure we propose scores a precision of 67% and a recall of 71%. The proposed method is compared with related work namely, word sense disambiguation, synonym…
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TopicsNatural Language Processing Techniques · linguistics and terminology studies · Lexicography and Language Studies
