Visualisation of Collocational Preferences for Near-Synonym Discrimination
This paper aims to explore the potential usefulness of two techniques that visualise collocational preference for the purpose of synonym discrimination. Given the fact that collocation is one of the most important markers of meaning difference, it is used as the criterion for distinguishing betwe...
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| description | This paper aims to explore the potential usefulness of two techniques that visualise
collocational preference for the purpose of synonym discrimination. Given the fact that collocation
is one of the most important markers of meaning difference, it is used as the criterion for distinguishing between near-synonyms. Collocational preferences for a set of near-synonyms (artificial, fake, false, and synthetic) were visualised using two techniques: correspondence analysis plot and collocational network. The collocations were retrieved from BNC corpus by using a distributional
method. An advantage of the graphs is that they allow lexicographers to spot similarities and differences in collocational preference of several words in a single diagram. Such visualisations may
be used as an alternative way to a tabular form of data presentation to avoid information overload
which arises when lexicographers prepare synonym essays for productively-oriented dictionaries.
The visualisations can be used as a starting point for exploring semantic differences between
semantically similar words. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a42257096d68432ebb3d17e1e1ab12492022-12-22T00:41:10ZafrWoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WATLexikos1684-49042224-00392017-11-012723725110.5788/27-1-1401Visualisation of Collocational Preferences for Near-Synonym DiscriminationMariusz Piotr Kamiński0University of Applied Sciences This paper aims to explore the potential usefulness of two techniques that visualise collocational preference for the purpose of synonym discrimination. Given the fact that collocation is one of the most important markers of meaning difference, it is used as the criterion for distinguishing between near-synonyms. Collocational preferences for a set of near-synonyms (artificial, fake, false, and synthetic) were visualised using two techniques: correspondence analysis plot and collocational network. The collocations were retrieved from BNC corpus by using a distributional method. An advantage of the graphs is that they allow lexicographers to spot similarities and differences in collocational preference of several words in a single diagram. Such visualisations may be used as an alternative way to a tabular form of data presentation to avoid information overload which arises when lexicographers prepare synonym essays for productively-oriented dictionaries. The visualisations can be used as a starting point for exploring semantic differences between semantically similar words.https://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1401visualisationcorrespondence analysiscollocational networksynonymy discriminationcollocationautomatic retrieval of synonymsnear-synonymcollocation preferences |
| spellingShingle | Mariusz Piotr Kamiński Visualisation of Collocational Preferences for Near-Synonym Discrimination Lexikos visualisation correspondence analysis collocational network synonymy discrimination collocation automatic retrieval of synonyms near-synonym collocation preferences |
| title | Visualisation of Collocational Preferences for Near-Synonym Discrimination |
| title_full | Visualisation of Collocational Preferences for Near-Synonym Discrimination |
| title_fullStr | Visualisation of Collocational Preferences for Near-Synonym Discrimination |
| title_full_unstemmed | Visualisation of Collocational Preferences for Near-Synonym Discrimination |
| title_short | Visualisation of Collocational Preferences for Near-Synonym Discrimination |
| title_sort | visualisation of collocational preferences for near synonym discrimination |
| topic | visualisation correspondence analysis collocational network synonymy discrimination collocation automatic retrieval of synonyms near-synonym collocation preferences |
| url | https://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1401 |
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