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But you will come across a lot of words used in definitions that could easily be replaced with more common words. In some cases the change to the definition wou
by excalibur 8y ago
But you will come across a lot of words used in definitions that could easily be replaced with more common words. In some cases the change to the definition would be tiny, in others it might be more significant.
- oh_sigh 8y agoIt seems like a good start. Once you do that, you could start finding vertices with large amounts of incoming edges, attempt to redefine the word as a phrase composed of only words still in the graph, remove that vertex, and repeat.
- clhodapp 8y agoThat will get you much closer but it does ignore the ability to apply creativity to definitions to further reduce them. In the end, a machine-driven technique can give an approximate answer to this problem but it will never be the "perfect" answer.
- cpeterso 8y agoI'd like to see a DAG of WordNet, a database of English synonyms. Mapping single word synonyms solves the problem of common words in definitions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordNet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordNet
- rijoja 8y agoCame here to say exactly the same! Great minds think alike!