Knowledge derived from wikipedia for computing semantic relatedness

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Volumn 30, Issue , 2007, Pages 181-212

  Ponzetto, Simone Paolo ^a   Strube, Michael ^a  

^a EML Research gGmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DATA STRUCTURES; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTIC WEB;

COMPUTING SEMANTICS; COREFERENCE RESOLUTION SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC NETWORKS;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 38349104539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10769757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1613/jair.2308     Document Type: Article

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