Antonym Generation Process Overview

The general processes for antonym generation are described below.

I. Generate aPair candidates

• APair candidates are generated from different sources (LEX, SD, PD, CC, SN).
• The new raw candidates are based from the updates of the LEXICON, Meta-Thesaurus, Lexical Tools, etc.
• The raw candidates are automatically tagged using ${ANTONYM}/antCand.data.tag.${YEAR}
• The tagged aPairs are split into:
  • antCand${SRC}.data.tag
  • antCand${SRC}.data.tag.tbd
    => This is the new aPair candidate file send to linguists to tag

II. Send aPair candidates to linguists for tagging

• Send antCand${SRC}.data.tag.tbd to linguist to tag
• Append the tagged file of antCand${SRC}.data.tag.tbd to antCand${SRC}.tag.tagged

III. Validate and fix tags

• Tagged file is automatically validated and fixed (for those aPairs are tagged a not canonical).
• The fixed tag file is saved at antCand${SRC}.data.tag.fixed
• Need to fix tags until tagged and fixed files are the same
• Manually copy tagged to tagged.${YEAR}

IV. Update overall tags

• Update tags from tagged.${YEAR} to antCand.data.tag.${YEAR}
• Use this updated file antCand.data.tag.${YEAR} to re-run all steps until there is no change.

V. Generate Release

Generate release files from antCand.data.tag.${YEAR}

• antonyms
• negation cue words

VI. Status on Antonym Source Models