Identifying Synonyms Based on Sentence Structure Analysis
Yu Juan1, Yin Jidong2, Fei Shu3
1. School of Public Administration and Policy, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China; 2. Jiangxi Institute of Standardization, Nanchang 330029, China; 3. Library of Dalian Vocational & Technical College, Dalian 116035, China
Abstract：A new method of identifying synonyms is proposed for the purpose of reducing the deviation when calculating the semantic similarity between two different terms or phrases. The method first analyzes sentence structures of the concerned terms (or phrases), and then calculates the semantic similarity between two terms (or phrases) based on Tongyici Cilin (a Chinese thesaurus). This method weights each word in the concerned terms (or phrases) equally to reduce identifying errors made by gravity-centre-backward methods. Experiments show that the proposed method of identifying synonyms is accurate and has good potentials for text mining and semantic retrieval applications.
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