Using WordNet to measure semantic orientation of adjectives

Jaap Kamps; Maarten Marx; R. ort. Mokken; Maarten de Rijke

Using WordNet to measure semantic orientation of adjectives

Jaap Kamps ,
Maarten Marx ,
R. ort. Mokken ,
Maarten de Rijke

Proceedings of LREC-04, 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation | January 2004

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Current WordNet-based measures of distance or similarity focus almost exclusively on WordNetï¿½s taxonomic relations. This effectively restricts their applicability to the syntactic categories of noun and verb. We investigate a graph-theoretic model of WordNetï¿½s 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.