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Choosing the Word Most Typical in Context Using a Lexical Co-occurrence Network

Philip Edmonds

cs.CLarXiv:cs/9811009

Abstract

This paper presents a partial solution to a component of the problem of lexical choice: choosing the synonym most typical, or expected, in context. We apply a new statistical approach to representing the context of a word through lexical co-occurrence networks. The implementation was trained and evaluated on a large corpus, and results show that the inclusion of second-order co-occurrence relations improves the performance of our implemented lexical choice program.

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