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Human-Level Performance on Word Analogy Questions by Latent Relational Analysis
Peter D. Turney
This paper introduces Latent Relational Analysis (LRA), a method for measuring relational similarity. LRA has potential applications in many areas, including information extraction…
Word Sense Disambiguation by Web Mining for Word Co-occurrence Probabilities
Peter D. Turney
This paper describes the National Research Council (NRC) Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) system, as applied to the English Lexical Sample (ELS) task in Senseval-3. The NRC system a…
Combining Independent Modules to Solve Multiple-choice Synonym and Analogy Problems
Peter D. Turney, Michael L. Littman, Jeffrey Bigham +1
Existing statistical approaches to natural language problems are very coarse approximations to the true complexity of language processing. As such, no single technique will be best…
Measuring Praise and Criticism: Inference of Semantic Orientation from Association
Peter D. Turney, Michael L. Littman
The evaluative character of a word is called its semantic orientation. Positive semantic orientation indicates praise (e.g., "honest", "intrepid") and negative semantic orientation…
Answering Subcognitive Turing Test Questions: A Reply to French
Peter D. Turney
Robert French has argued that a disembodied computer is incapable of passing a Turing Test that includes subcognitive questions. Subcognitive questions are designed to probe the ne…