Paradigmatic Clustering for NLP

Abstract

How can we retrieve meaningful information from a large and sparse graph?. Traditional approaches focus on generic clustering techniques and discovering dense cumulus in a network graph, however, they tend to omit interesting patterns such as the paradigmatic relations. In this paper, we propose a novel graph clustering technique modelling the relations of a node using the paradigmatic analysis. We exploit node's relations to extract its existing sets of signifiers. The newly found clusters represent a different view of a graph, which provides interesting insights into the structure of a sparse network graph. Our proposed algorithm PaC (Paradigmatic Clustering) for clustering graphs uses paradigmatic analysis supported by a asymmetric similarity, in contrast to traditional graph clustering methods, our algorithm yields worthy results in tasks of word-sense disambiguation. In addition we propose a novel paradigmatic similarity measure. Extensive experiments and empirical analysis are used to evaluate our algorithm on synthetic and real data. © 2015 IEEE.