Roget's Thesaurus as a Lexical Resource for Natural Language Processing

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WordNet proved that it is possible to construct a large-scale electronic lexical database on the principles of lexical semantics.

• It has been accepted and used extensively by computational linguists ever since it was released.
• Inspired by WordNet's success, we propose as an alternative a similar resource, based on the 1987 Penguin edition of Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases.
• Peter Mark Roget published his first Thesaurus over 150 years ago.