Semantic analysis of antonyms of Russian and English

Methods of quantitative analysis are based on the fundamental concept of distance between entities. Application of these methods in semantics researches is possible only when the adequate metrics is defined over the set of lexical units. An approach for defining such metrics is proposed in this paper. Lexical database is used for defining distance between Russian words. Monolingual and bilingual resources are used for words clustering and sense disambiguation in Machine Translation systems.