Near-Synonym Choice in an Intelligent Thesaurus

ences specic to each near-synonym. Our thesaurus brings up only alternatives that have the same part-of-speech with the target word. The choices could come from various inventories of near-synonyms or similar words, for example the Roget thesaurus (Roget, 1852), dictionaries of syn-onyms (Hayakawa, 1994), or clusters acquired from corpora (Lin ... ................
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