Using WordNet to Measure Semantic Orientations of Adjectives
Published 1 May 2004Open access
Jaap Kamps, M. Marx, Robert J. Mokken, Maarten de Rijke
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Abstract
Current WordNet-based measures of distance or similarity focus almost exclusively on WordNet's taxonomic relations.This effectively restricts their applicability to the syntactic categories of noun and verb.We investigate a graph-theoretic model of WordNet's most important relation-synonymy-and propose measures that determine the semantic orientation of adjectives for three factors of subjective meaning.Evaluation against human judgments shows the effectiveness of the resulting measures.
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