Concept similarity by evaluating information contents and feature vectors: A combined approach

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 145-149

  Formica, Anna ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Laboratory for Enterprise Knowledge and Systems (LEKS)   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIPARTITE GRAPHS; CONCEPT SIMILARITIES; CONCEPT STRUCTURES; DOMAIN EXPERTS; FEATURE VECTORS; GENERAL KNOWLEDGE; INFORMATION CONTENTS; MAXIMUM WEIGHTED MATCHING; SEMANTIC SIMILARITIES; SIMILARITY MEASURES; SPECIFIC WEIGHTS;

GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; TAXONOMIES;

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EID: 61849148752     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1467247.1467281     Document Type: Article

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