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A word-to-word similarity function automatically extracted from a corpus of texts can be a very helpful tool in automatic extraction of lexical semantic relations. There are many approaches for English, but only a few for inflective languages with almost free word order. In the paper a method for the construction of a similarity function for Polish nouns is proposed. The method uses only simple tools for language processing (e.g. it does need the application of a parser). The core is the construction of a matrix of co-occurrences of nouns and adjectives on the basis of application of morpho-syntactic constraints testing agreement between an adjective and a noun. Several methods of transformation of the matrix and calculation of the similarity function are presented. The achieved accuracy of 81.15% in WordNet-based Synonymy Test (for 4 611 Polish nouns, using the current version of Polish WordNet) seems to be comparable with the best results reported for English (e.g. 75.8% [5]).
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Piasecki, M., Broda, B. (2007). Semantic Similarity Measure of Polish Nouns Based on Linguistic Features. In: Abramowicz, W. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4439. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72035-5_29
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