"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…