A semantic similarity metric combining features and intrinsic information content

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1289-1308

  Pirró, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Intrinsic information content; Java WordNet Similarity Library; Semantic similarity; Similarity experiment; Similarity on MeSH

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION CONTENTS; JAVA WORDNET SIMILARITY LIBRARY; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SIMILARITY EXPERIMENT; WORDNET;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INFORMATION THEORY; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 71749089179     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2009.06.008     Document Type: Article

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