Toward an objective thesaurus from semantic map

Hitoshi Isahara and Kyoko Kanzaki

We introduce a trial toward an objective thesaurus which is represented on the bi-dimensional semantic map. We focus on the semantic relations between abstract nouns and adjectives. Using the CSM (Complementary Similarity Measure) as a measure of semantic distances between words, we can represent superordinate/subordinate relation on the semantic map.