An information theoretic approach to improve semantic similarity assessments across multiple ontologies

Information Sciences

Volumn 283, Issue , 2014, Pages 197-210

  Batet, Montserrat ^a   Harispe, Sébastien ^b   Ranwez, Sylvie ^b   Sánchez, David ^a   Ranwez, Vincent ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b ENSMA   (France)

^c UMR AGAP   (France)

Author keywords

Information Theory; MeSH; Ontology; Semantic similarity; SNOMED CT

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; ONTOLOGY;

EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; INFORMATION-THEORETIC APPROACH; KNOWLEDGE-BASED APPLICATIONS; MESH; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SIMILARITY ASSESSMENT; SIMILARITY ESTIMATION; SNOMED-CT;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 84906080858     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2014.06.039     Document Type: Article

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