Schwab, Lafourcade, Prince, pres. by
Ch. Boitet
Antonymy and
Conceptual Vectors
Background on
conceptual vectors
nLexical Item = ideas = combination of concepts
= Vector V
nIdeas space = vector space (generator space)
nConcept = idea = vector Vc
nVc taken from a thesaurus hierarchy
(Larousse)
ntranslation of RogetÕs thesaurus, 873 leaf nodes
nthe word ÔpeaceÕ has non zero values for concept PEACE and other
concepts