Exploring Lexical Patterns in Text: Lexical Cohesion Analysis with WordNet

Exploring Lexical Patterns in Text: Lexical Cohesion Analysis with WordNet
Elke Teich^∗, Peter Fankhauser^∗∗

Technische Universita¨t Darmstadt^∗, FhG-IPSI, Darmstadt^∗∗
We present a system for the linguistic exploration and analysis of lexical cohesion in English texts. Using an electronic thesaurus-like resource, Princeton WordNet, and the Brown Corpus of English, we have imple- mented a process of annotating text with lexical chains and a graphical user interface for inspection of the annotated text. We describe the sys- tem and report on some sample linguistic analyses carried out using the combined thesaurus-corpus resource.