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title: "Identifying Synonyms among Distributionally Similar Words"
authors:
  - "Dekang Lin"
  - "Shaojun Zhao"
  - "Lijuan Qin"
  - "Ming Zhou"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/247"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/0247.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2003
pages: "1492-1492"
track: ""
keywords:
---

# Identifying Synonyms among Distributionally Similar Words

Dekang Lin, Shaojun Zhao, Lijuan Qin, Ming Zhou

*Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1492-1492.

## Abstract

There have been many proposals to compute similarities between words based on their distributions in contexts. However, these approaches do not distinguish between synonyms and antonyms. We present two methods for identifying synonyms among distributionally similar words.