A study on similarity and relatedness using distributional and wordnet-based approaches

NAACL HLT 2009 - Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 19-27

  Agirre, Eneko ^a   Alfonseca, Enrique ^b   Hall, Keith ^b,c   Kravalova, Jana ^b   Paşca, Marius ^b   Soroa, Aitor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY   (Spain)

^b GOOGLE   (United Kingdom)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

CROSS-LINGUAL; DISTRIBUTIONAL SIMILARITIES; MINOR LOSS; WORDNET;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84858390207     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1620754.1620758     Document Type: Conference Paper

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