Augmenting Lexicons Automatically: Clustering Semantically Related Adjectives
Abstract:
Our work focuses on identifying various types of lexical data in large corpora through statistical analysis. In this paper, we present a method for grouping adjectives according to their meaning, as a step towards the automatic identification of adjectival scales. We describe how our system exploits two sources of linguistic knowledge in a corpus to compute a measure of similarity between two adjectives, using statistical techniques and a clustering algorithm for grouping. We evaluate the significance of the results produced by our system for a sample set of adjectives.
(K. McKeown, V. Hatzivassiloglou)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3115/1075671.1075732