The semantic and stylistic differentiation of synonyms and near-synonyms. DiMarco, C., Hirst, G., & Stede, M. In AAAI Spring Symposium on Building Lexicons for Machine Translation, pages 114–121, Stanford CA, March, 1993. abstract bibtex If we want to describe the action of someone who is looking out a window for an extended time, how do we choose between the words gazing, staring, and peering? What exactly is the difference between an argument, a dispute, and a row? In this paper, we describe our research in progress on the problem of lexical choice and the representations of world knowledge and of lexical structure and meaning that the task requires. In particular, we wish to deal with nuances and subtleties of denotation and connotation—shades of meaning and of style—such as those illustrated by the examples above.
We are studying the task in two related contexts: machine translation, and the generation of multilingual text from a single representation of content. In the present paper, we concentrate on issues in lexical representation. We describe a methodology, based on dictionary usage notes, that we are using to discover the dimensions along which similar words can be differentiated, and we discuss a two-part representation for lexical differentiation.
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author = {Chrysanne DiMarco and Graeme Hirst and Manfred Stede},
title = {The semantic and stylistic differentiation of synonyms and
near-synonyms},
booktitle = {AAAI Spring Symposium on Building Lexicons for Machine
Translation},
address = {Stanford CA},
month = {March},
year = {1993},
pages = {114--121},
abstract = {<P>If we want to describe the action of someone who is
looking out a window for an extended time, how do we choose
between the words <I>gazing</I>, <I>staring</I>, and
<I>peering</I>? What exactly is the difference between an
<I>argument</I>, a <I>dispute</I>, and a <I>row</I>? In
this paper, we describe our research in progress on the
problem of <B>lexical choice</B> and the representations of
world knowledge and of lexical structure and meaning that
the task requires. In particular, we wish to deal with
<B>nuances</B> and <B>subtleties</B> of denotation and
connotation---shades of meaning and of style---such as
those illustrated by the examples above.</p> <P> We are
studying the task in two related contexts: machine
translation, and the generation of multilingual text from a
single representation of content. In the present paper, we
concentrate on issues in lexical representation. We
describe a methodology, based on dictionary usage notes,
that we are using to discover the dimensions along which
similar words can be differentiated, and we discuss a
two-part representation for lexical differentiation.</p>},
download = {http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/gh/DiMarco++-NearSynonyms-93.pdf}
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