| Title | Using WordNet to Measure Semantic Orientations of Adjectives |
| Author(s) |
Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx, Robert J. Mokken, Maarten de Rijke
Language & Inference Technology Group ILLC, University of Amsterdam |
| Session | P10-W |
| Abstract | Current WordNet-based measures of distance or similarity focus almost exclusively on WordNet's taxonomic relations. This effectively restricts their applicability to the syntactic categories of noun and verb. We investigate a graph-theoretic model of WordNet's most important relation--synonymy--and propose measures that determine the semantic orientation of adjectives for three factors of subjective meaning. Evaluation against human judgments shows the effectiveness of the resulting measures. |
| Keyword(s) | WordNet Adjectives, Semantic Orientation, Distance Measures |
| Language(s) | English |
| Full Paper | 734.pdf |