Other people I've spoken to agree with Ted: adding Wordnet pretty reliably makes things worse.
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Ted Dunning<[email protected]> wrote: > One of the take-aways of all of this work is that it is difficult to get > large amounts of performance lift from resources built for purposes > different than what you are doing. > > Wordnet was not built to specifically help with search or with data mining. > It was built because people wanted to explore whether a machine readable > dictionary like data source would help. Occasionally it does, but more > often it does not. The observation that links are not weighted is one > problem that is commonly encountered, but that only raises the question of > how to weight links. That question has no single answer. > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Stephen Green <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Seriously, though, there's been a lot of work on this, and you should get >> some good ideas from some of the work that was done in this century :-) >> Man, I'm getting old. > > > > > -- > Ted Dunning, CTO > DeepDyve >
