Measuring semantic similarity between words using web search engines

16th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 757-766

  Bollegala, Danushka ^a   Matsuo, Yutaka ^b   Ishizuka, Mitsuru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC WEB; WEB SERVICES;

DATASET; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY MEASURE; WEB CONTENT;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 35348903881     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1242572.1242675     Document Type: Conference Paper

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