Calculating semantic distance between word sense probability distributions

Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, CoNLL 2004 - Held in cooperation with HLT-NAACL 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Tsang, Vivian ^a   Stevenson, Suzanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

DISTANCE MEASURE; PROBABILITY: DISTRIBUTIONS; SEMANTIC DISTANCE; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY MEASURES; WEIGHTED DISTANCE; WORD SENSE; WORDNET; WORDNET HIERARCHY; WORDNET SENSE;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 44949168875     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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