The initial knowledge base is later enriched with information from other machine-readable dictionaries. Information about the collocational behavior of the near-synonyms is acquired from free text. The knowledge base is used by Xenon, a natural language generation system that shows how the new lexical resource can be used to choose the best near-synonym in specific situations.
['Diana Inkpen', 'Graeme Hirst']
Building and Using a Lexical Knowledge Base of Near-Synonym Differences