Measuring concept relatedness using language models

ACM SIGIR 2008 - 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 823-824

  Trieschnigg, Dolf ^a   Meij, Edgar ^b   De Rijke, Maarten ^b   Kraaij, Wessel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Language models; Semantic relatedness

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION THEORY; ONTOLOGY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

ART METHODS; BIOMEDICAL DOMAINS; CONCEPT ASSIGNMENTS; CROSS ENTROPIES; INFORMATION CONTENTS; LANGUAGE MODELS; ONTOLOGY STRUCTURES; SEMANTIC RELATEDNESS; TEST SETS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 57349185567     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1390334.1390523     Document Type: Conference Paper

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