2015-10-28_IALP2015_Construction of Japanese Semantically Compatible Words Resource

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Abstract

Proposal:To reduce the amount of words and to alleviate the data sparseness problem.

Done:We construct semantically compatible words.

Result:We have constructed semantically compatible words resource.

Future:We will evaluate this resource in another NLP tasks.

More information

This resource is integrated into SNOWMAN, Japanese word analyzer.

It will be available soon.

Please check this site(Japanese only).

Q&A

Q:What is a formal definition of semantically compatible words?

A:If the word was replaced by another word, these words are semantically compatible words.

It is similar to synonym.

For example, cat and meow are semantically compatible words.

In existing resources, cat is replaced by animal.