Metric of intrinsic information content for measuring semantic similarity in an ontology

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 110, Issue , 2010, Pages 89-96

  Seddiqui, Md Hanif ^a   Aono, Masaki ^a  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Concept; Information content; Ontology; Semantic similarity

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX FORMS; CONCEPT; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE; HYPONYMY; HYPONYMY RELATION; INFORMATION CONTENTS; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84864539394     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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