Application-oriented comparison and evaluation of six semantic similarity measures based on wordnet

Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 2605-2610

  Liu, Peng Yuan ^a   Zhao, Tie Jun ^a   Yu, Xiao Feng ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Relatedness; Semantic; Similarity; Synset; WordNet; WordNet::Similarity

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

TRANSLATION SELECTION; WORDNET;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 33947289194     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMLC.2006.258857     Document Type: Conference Paper

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