Unsupervised semantic similarity computation using web search engines

Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 381-387

  Iosif, Elias ^a   Potamianos, Alexandras ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CORRELATION METHODS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION THEORY; INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

DATA SETS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; WEB INTELLIGENCE; WEB SEARCH ENGINE; WEB SEARCHES; WORD NET;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 48349085559     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WI.2007.104     Document Type: Conference Paper

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