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Graded relevance ranking for synonym discovery

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Interest in domain-specific search is steadfastly increasing, yielding a growing need for domain-specific synonym discovery. Existing synonym discovery methods perform poorly when faced with the realistic task of identifying a target term's synonyms from among many candidates. We approach domain-specific synonym discovery as a graded relevance ranking problem in which a target term's synonym candidates are ranked by their quality. In this scenario a human editor uses each ranked list of synonym candidates to build a domain-specific thesaurus. We evaluate our method for graded relevance ranking of synonym candidates and find that it outperforms existing methods.

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  • (2014)An Integrated Approach to Automatic Synonym Detection in Turkish CorpusAdvances in Natural Language Processing10.1007/978-3-319-10888-9_12(116-127)Online publication date: 2014
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    WWW '13 Companion: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web
    May 2013
    1636 pages
    ISBN:9781450320382
    DOI:10.1145/2487788
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    1. domain-specific search
    2. domain-specific thesaurus construction
    3. synonym discovery
    4. thesaurus construction

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    WWW '13: 22nd International World Wide Web Conference
    May 13 - 17, 2013
    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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    • (2014)An Integrated Approach to Automatic Synonym Detection in Turkish CorpusAdvances in Natural Language Processing10.1007/978-3-319-10888-9_12(116-127)Online publication date: 2014
    • (undefined)Improving Web Scale Discovery ServicesSSRN Electronic Journal10.2139/ssrn.3139357

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