@inproceedings{Mohammad_2008,
 author = "Saif Mohammad and Bonnie Dorr and Graeme Hirst",
 title = "Computing Word-Pair Antonymy",
 booktitle = "2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2008)",
 address = "Waikiki, Hawaii",
 month = "October",
 year = "2008",
 abstract = "<p>Knowing the degree of antonymy between words has widespread applications in natural language processing. Manually-created lexicons have limited coverage and do not include most semantically contrasting word pairs. We present a new automatic and empirical measure of antonymy that combines corpus statistics with the structure of a published thesaurus.  The approach is evaluated on a set of closest-opposite questions, obtaining a precision of over 80%. Along the way, we discuss what humans consider antonymous and how antonymy manifests itself in utterances.</p>",
 download = "http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/gh/Mohammad-etal-2008.pdf"
}