... (Ruben-stein and Goodenough, 1965; Miller and Charles,1991), and human judgments have previously beenused successfully to study synonymy and near-synonymy (Miller and Charles, 1991; Bybee and Eddington, ... Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP of the AFNLP, pages 10–18,Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009.c2009 ACL and AFNLPInvestigations on Word Senses and Word UsagesKatrin ErkUniversity ... Rosenzweig,2000) for a lexical sample using the HECTOR dic-tionary and 78.6.% using WordNet (Landes et al.,1998) in all-words annotation. The use of morecoarse-grained senses alleviates the...