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<Paper uid="P98-1098">
  <Title>Combining a Chinese Thesaurus with a Chinese Dictionary</Title>
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6. Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, we propose an automatic method to combine a Chinese thesaurus with a Chinese dictionary. Their combination establishes the correspondence between the entries in the thesaurus and the senses in the dictionary, and provides reliable information about the lexical items on which the two resources are not in accordance with each other. The method uses no language-specific knowledge, and can be applied to other languages.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The combination of the two resources can be seen as improvement on both of them. On the one hand, it makes the thesaurus specify the similarity between word senses behind that between words, on the other hand, it produces a semantic classification for the word senses in the dictionary.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> The method is in fact appropriate for a more general problem: given a set of similar words, how to identify the senses, among all, which account for their similarity. In the problem we consider here, the words fall within a category in the Chinese thesaurus, with similarity to some extent between each other. The work suggests that if the set contains more words, and they are more similar with each other, the result will be more sound.</Paragraph>
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