Computing semantic similarities based on machine-readable dictionaries

Proceedings - 1st IEEE International Workshop on Semantic Computing and Systems, WSCS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 8-14

  Liu, Hui ^a   Zhao, Jinglei ^a   Lu, Ruzhan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS; VECTORS;

LEXICAL RESOURCES; NOVEL METHODS; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SIMILARITY MEASURING;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 52149115100     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSCS.2008.9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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