Harnessing different knowledge sources to measure semantic relatedness under a uniform model

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 991-1002

  Zhang, Ziqi ^a   Gentile, Anna Lisa ^a   Ciravegna, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL DOMAIN; DATA SETS; KNOWLEDGE SOURCES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTIC RELATEDNESS; UNIFORM MODEL; WIKIPEDIA; WORDNET;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053237785     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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