NAME
README Introduction to Automatic Thesaurus Construction Package (ATCP)
SYNOPSIS
This document provides a general introduction to the Automatic Thesaurus
Construction Package.
DESCRIPTION
1. Introduction
The Automatic Thesaurus Construction Package (ATCP) is a suite of
programs that aids in generating Thesauri from text files. We define a
thesaurus as a structure composed by seeds and their semantic related
terms, as follow:
seed: car
related: auto, automobile, machine, motorcar etc.
ATCP consists of three core programs and three utilities:
Program main_sta.py
Program main_lin.py
Program main_lsa.py takes plain text files and seeds as input and generates a list of
related terms to each seed, using the Latentic Semantic Analysis (LSA) algorithm.
2. Types of construction
The Automatic Thesaurus Construction Package (ATCP) in its version (v0.1)
supports three types of automatic construction.
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Copyright (C) 2011, Roger Granada.
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