Comparing Similarity of Words Based on Psychosemantic Experiment and RuWordNet

Valery Solovyev, Natalia Loukachevitch


Abstract
In the paper we compare the structure of the Russian language thesaurus RuWordNet with the data of a psychosemantic experiment to identify semantically close words. The aim of the study is to find out to what extent the structure of RuWordNet corresponds to the intuitive ideas of native speakers about the semantic proximity of words. The respondents were asked to list synonyms to a given word. As a result of the experiment, we found that the respondents mainly mentioned not only synonyms but words that are in paradigmatic relations with the stimuli. The words of the mental sphere were chosen for the experiment. In 95% of cases, the words characterized in the experiment as semantically close were also close according to the thesaurus. In other cases, additions to the thesaurus were proposed.
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2021.gwc-1.23
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Proceedings of the 11th Global Wordnet Conference
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January
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2021
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University of South Africa (UNISA)
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Piek Vossen, Christiane Fellbaum
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GWC
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SIGLEX
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Global Wordnet Association
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199–206
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Valery Solovyev and Natalia Loukachevitch. 2021. Comparing Similarity of Words Based on Psychosemantic Experiment and RuWordNet. In Proceedings of the 11th Global Wordnet Conference, pages 199–206, University of South Africa (UNISA). Global Wordnet Association.
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