Refining the notions of depth and density in wordnet-based semantic similarity measures

EMNLP 2011 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1003-1011

  Wang, Tong ^a   Hirst, Graeme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; IN-DEGREE; INTEGER VALUES; LEXICAL SEMANTICS; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY MEASURES; SIMILARITY MEASURE; WORDNET;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ONTOLOGY; REFINING; SEMANTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053235086     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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