A relational model of semantic similarity between words using automatically extracted lexical pattern clusters from the web

EMNLP 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of ACL, Held in Conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 803-812

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; DOCUMENT CLUSTERING; MAHALANOBIS DISTANCE MEASURE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; SEMANTIC RELATIONS; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY MEASURES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 78049256235     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1699571.1699617     Document Type: Conference Paper

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