Objective Hierarchy of Abstract Concepts -Organization of Abstract Nouns via Distribution of Adjectives

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Our purpose in this research is to find an objective way to organize word meanings by using large corpora. At first we are treating adjectives which have complicated meanings. We focus on the semantic relations between abstract nouns and adjectives. And then we construct a Semantic Map of abstract nouns based on the classification of adjectives by using a Self Organizing Semantic Map (SOM). We use the CSM(Complementary Similarity Measure) as their input data of SOM. We can see the SOM from two viewpoints. One is a position of an abstract noun of all abstract nouns and another is a superordinate/subordinate relation. Finally we explain the aspect of the superordinate abstract concepts that all adjectives have commonly.