Exploiting Wikipedia for directional inferential text similarity

Proceedings - International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, ITNG 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 686-691

  Wee, Leong Chee ^a   Hassan, Samer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional; Inference; Semantic; Similarity; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

RANDOM METRIC BASELINE; SEMANTIC RESOURCE;

DATA STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 44049095762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITNG.2008.190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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