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In this paper we research the lexical affinity between words. Our goal is to define a distance measure which corresponds with the semantic affinity between words. This measure is based on WordNet, where two words/concepts can be connected by a string of stepwise synonyms. The number of hops defines the distance between words. In addition we present a natural language processing toolbox, developed in the course of this work, that combines a number of existing tools and adds a number of analysis tools.
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van Willegen, I., Rothkrantz, L., Wiggers, P. (2009). Lexical Affinity Measure between Words. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5729. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04208-9_34
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