The Open Roget's Project:
Relevant papers

Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz (2014). Evaluation of Automatic Updates of Roget’s Thesaurus. Journal of Language Modelling 2(1), 1-49. Kennedy_Szpakowicz_JLM_2014

Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz (2012). Supervised Distributional Semantic Relatedness. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue TSD 2012, Brno, Czech Republic. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 7499, Springer Verlag, 207-214. Kennedy_Szpakowicz_TSD_2012

Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz (2012). Fast Semantic Relatedness: WordNet::Similarity vs Roget's Thesaurus. Tiny Transactions on Computer Science vol. 1, 1 page, http://tinytocs.org/vol1/papers/tinytocs-v1-kennedy.pdf.

Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz (2011). A Supervised Method of Feature Weighting for Measuring Semantic Relatedness. Proceedings of the 24th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Canadian AI 2011, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6657, Springer Verlag, 222-233. Kennedy_Szpakowicz_CAI_2011

Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz (2010). Evaluation of a Sentence Ranker for Text Summarization Based on Roget’s Thesaurus. Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue TSD 2010, Brno, Czech Republic. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6231, Springer Verlag, 101-108. Kennedy_Szpakowicz_TSD_2010

Alistair Kennedy (2010). Automatically Expanding the Lexicon of Roget’s Thesaurus. Proceedings of the 23rd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2010, Ottawa, Canada. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6085, Springer Verlag, 410-411. Kennedy_CAI_2010

Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz (2008). Evaluating Roget’s Thesauri. Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, Columbus, Ohio, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, 416-424. Kennedy_Szpakowicz_ACL_2008

Saima Aman, Stan Szpakowicz (2008). Using Roget's Thesaurus for Fine-grained Emotion Recognition. Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conferecne on Natural Language Processing IJCNLP 2008, Hyderabad, India, 296-302.

Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz (2007). Disambiguating Hypernym Relations for Roget’s Thesaurus. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue TSD 2007, Plzeň, Czech Republic, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4629, Springer Verlag, 66-75. Kennedy_Szpakowicz_TSD_2007

Mario Jarmasz, Stan Szpakowicz (2003). Roget's Thesaurus and semantic similarity. Proceedings of the Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing RANLP 2003, Bulgaria, 212-219. Jarmasz_Szpakowicz_RANLP_2003

Mario Jarmasz, Stan Szpakowicz (2003). Not as Easy as It Seems: Automating the Construction of Lexical Chains Using Roget's Thesaurus. Proceedings of the 16th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2003, Halifax, Canada, 2003. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2671, Springer Verlag, 544-549.

Mario Jarmasz, Stan Szpakowicz (2001). The design and implementation of an electronic lexical knowledge base. Proceedings of the 14th Biennial Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence AI 2001, Ottawa, Canada. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2056, Springer Verlag, 325-334.

Mario Jarmasz, Stan Szpakowicz (2001). Roget’s Thesaurus: a lexical resource to treasure. Proceedings of the NAACL Workshop on WordNet and Other Lexical Resources, Pittsburgh, PA, 186-188.

Vivi Nastase, Stan Szpakowicz (2001). Word Sense Disambiguation in Roget's Thesaurus Using WordNet. Proceedings of the NAACL Workshop on WordNet and Other Lexical Resources, Pittsburgh, PA, 17-22.