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Chapter 2 Review, Continued, Part 2 — "Automatic Discovery of Similar Words"

Chapter 2 Review, Continued, Part 2 — "Automatic Discovery of Similar Words"

(Direct continuation of yesterday’s post, w/r/t Senellart & Blondel on “Automatic Discovery of Similar Words” in Survey of Text Mining II. I give the references that cite, which I discuss in this post, at the end of the post.) In Chapter 2’s revieww of previous methods and associated literature, Senellart & Blondel start with banal and get progressively more interesting. The one thing I found interesting in the first model that Senellart and Blondel discussed was that the model was…

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"Automatic Discovery of Similar Words" – Chapter 2 in Survey of Text Mining II

"Automatic Discovery of Similar Words" – Chapter 2 in Survey of Text Mining II

This post begins a review of “Automatic Discovery of Similar Words,” by Pierre Senellart and Vincent D. Blondel, published as Chapter 2 in Berry and Castellanos’ Survey of Text Mining II. This is an excellent and useful chapter, in that it:1) Addresses the broad issue of computational methods for discovering “similar words” (including synonyms, near-synonyms, and thesauri-generating techniques) from large data corpora,2) Illustrates the different leading mathematical methods, giving an excellent overview of the SoA,3) Competently discusses how different methods…

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