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  <Title>Synonym Extraction Using a Semantic Distance on a Dictionary</Title>
  <Section position="6" start_page="70" end_page="71" type="concl">
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6 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have developed a general method to extract near-synonyms from a dictionary, improving on the two baselines. There is some arbitrariness in the parameters we used, but we believe the parameters are rather intuitive wrt to graph concepts.7 There is room for improvement obviously, also for a combination with other methods to filter synonyms (with frequency estimates for instance, such as tf.idf or mutual information measures).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Clearly the advantage of using a dictionary is retained: there is no restriction of coverage, and we could have used a specialised dictionary to build a specialised thesaurus. We have provided an assessment of the quality of the results, although there is not much to compare it to (to the best of our knowledge), since previous accounts only had cursory evaluation.</Paragraph>
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