Using WordNet-based Context Vectors to Estimate the Semantic Relatedness of Concepts

EACL 2006 - 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Workshop on Making Sense of Sense: Bringing Psycholinguistics and Computational Linguistics Together

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-8

  Patwardhan, Siddharth ^a   Pedersen, Ted ^b  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY;

CO-OCCURRENCE INFORMATIONS; CONTEXT VECTOR; COSINE OF THE ANGLES; DIFFERENT DOMAINS; HUMAN JUDGMENTS; MEASURES OF SEMANTIC RELATEDNESS; PART OF SPEECH; SEMANTIC RELATEDNESS; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION; WORDNET;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 85037531422     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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