[Corpora-List] Summary: Specificty and Similarity of Words

[Nuno Seco]

I have recently found this paper:
http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV38Yang.pdf

I've only skimmed through it, but it also seems relevant.

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Nuno

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 19:17 +0200, Ergin Altintas wrote:
> Dear corpra members;
>
> Sorry for my sending of the same message describing my questions about
> Specificty and Similarity of Words three times (on Wed, 16 Mar 2005
> 19:56:58 +0200). It was because of an error report returned by the
> maillist server which I couldn't understand because it wasn't in
> English.
>
> Any way there were 3 answers for my questions:
>
> 1. Nuno Seco referred to a work of his own. And this is what I was
> exactly looking for. I had a review of the paper, good work.
> http://afflatus.ucd.ie/~ebbis/seco.pdf
>
> 2. Mark Sanderson noted IDF and Karen Sparck Jones's ideas about
> specificty. They were mainly dependent on large copora. And that was
> not what I was looking for (yes I had not mentioned about "no
> corpora"). I wasnt famialiar to IDF and for the ones who consider to
> learn more about IDF's I think I should sahre this brief page having
> links to original resources is located here:
> http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~ser/idf.html
>
> 3. Ronald P. Reck said, he used Ted Pedersen's
> WordNet::Similarity package sucessfully. Yes. I also use this
> package and its great to have such open source projects for a good
> starts in CL. (But in fact this wasn't an answer for my questions)
> http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/similarity.html
>
> I am still looking for similar work as in (1).
>
> And one of my questions is not aswered yet exactly:
>
> How should similarity measures be evaluated? Is it enough to show the
> correlation to human judgements or shall we give practical
> results of application areas? (like WSD, IR, etc...)
>
> Thanks to everyone who had interest in my questions.
>
> Best Wishes,
>
>
> Ergin ALTINTAS
> Turkish Naval Academy