Measuring semantic similarity in the taxonomy of WordNet

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 38, Issue , 2005, Pages 315-322

  Yang, Dongqiang ^a   Powers, David M W ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Correlation; Semantic similarity; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM SELECTION; DATA SETS; HUMAN JUDGMENTS; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; TEST SETS; WORDNET;

ONTOLOGY; OPTICAL CORRELATION;

TAXONOMIES;

EID: 84868695115     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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