An integrated approach to measuring semantic similarity between words using information available on the Web

NAACL HLT 2007 - Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 340-347

  Bollegala, Danushka ^a   Matsuo, Yutaka ^b   Ishizuka, Mitsuru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK DATA; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOCUMENT CLUSTERING; F-MEASURE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LANGUAGE MODELING; LEXICO-SYNTACTIC PATTERNS; NAMED ENTITIES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY MEASURES; WEB BASED; WEB CONTENT;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77249092619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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