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.
%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.
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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},
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keywords = {dictionary taxonomy thesaurus},
month = {June},
timestamp = {2021-04-06T10:26:40.000+0200},
title = {What’s in a thesaurus?},
year = 2000
}