[Corpora-List] corpus ------>>>>> thesaurus

[Dominic Widdows]

> Hi Vladimir,

>

> You can find a good introduction to lexical acquisition methods based 

> on

> co-occurrence statistics in Manning and Schuetze's "Foundations of

> Statistical Natural Language Processing".


Hi Vladimir,

Just to add to Viktor's suggestion - we have a few demos of thesaurus 
generation / lexical acquisition some of which are based directly on 
Shuetze's work, at
http://infomap.stanford.edu/webdemo

There are a couple of fairly domain-specific models built from the 
Ohsumed medical corpus and the Wall Street Journal (though the latter 
has a lot of general topics as well).

You can find links to papers (including work on mapping words and 
senses from corpus derived models into hand-built lexical resources) 
and some software for processing corpora into vector word-association 
models (using a form of latent semantic analysis) from the main site at
http://infomap.stanford.edu/

Best wishes,
Dominic