A comparison of LSA, WordNet and PMI-IR for predicting user click behavior

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 51-60

  Kaur, Ishwinder ^a   Hornof, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational linguistics; LSA; PMI; Semantic relatedness; Semantic similarity; WordNet

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; WEBSITES;

PMI; SEMANTIC RELATEDNESS; SEMASNTIC SIMILARITY;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 80051475502     PISSN: 02749696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1054972.1054980     Document Type: Conference Paper

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