{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/watset-automatic-induction-of-synsets-from-a","title":"Watset: Automatic Induction of Synsets from a Graph of Synonyms","arxiv_id":"1704.07157","date":"2017-04-24","proceeding":"ACL 2017 7","authors":["Dmitry Ustalov","Alexander Panchenko","Chris Biemann"],"abstract":"This paper presents a new graph-based approach that induces synsets using\nsynonymy dictionaries and word embeddings. First, we build a weighted graph of\nsynonyms extracted from commonly available resources, such as Wiktionary.\nSecond, we apply word sense induction to deal with ambiguous words. Finally, we\ncluster the disambiguated version of the ambiguous input graph into synsets.\nOur meta-clustering approach lets us use an efficient hard clustering algorithm\nto perform a fuzzy clustering of the graph. Despite its simplicity, our\napproach shows excellent results, outperforming five competitive\nstate-of-the-art methods in terms of F-score on three gold standard datasets\nfor English and Russian derived from large-scale manually constructed lexical\nresources.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1704.07157v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.07157v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"watset-automatic-induction-of-synsets-from-a","repo_url":"https://github.com/dustalov/watset","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"clustering","task_name":"Clustering"},{"task_slug":"word-embeddings","task_name":"Word Embeddings"},{"task_slug":"word-sense-induction","task_name":"Word Sense Induction"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1704.07157","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}