SyMSS: A syntax-based measure for short-text semantic similarity

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 390-405

  Oliva, Jesús ^a   Serrano, José Ignacio ^a   Del Castillo, María Dolores ^a   Iglesias, Ángel ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Linguistic tools for IS modeling; Natural language processing (NLP); Semantic similarity; Sentence similarity; Text DBs

Indexed keywords

CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; LEXICAL DATABASE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PARSING PROCESS; RANK CORRELATION; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY MEASURES; SENTENCE SIMILARITY; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; SYNTACTIC INFORMATION; TEXT DBS; TEXT SUMMARIZATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 79952184075     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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