Measuring the semantic similarity of texts

EMSEE 2005 - Empirical Modeling of Semantic Equivalence and Entailment@ACL 2005, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 13-18

  Corley, Courtney ^a   Mihalcea, Rada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

KNOWLEDGE-BASED METHODS; LEXICAL MATCHING; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SIMILARITY METRICS; SIMILARITY OF CONCEPTS; SIMILARITY OF WORDS; TEXT SIMILARITY; WORD SIMILARITY;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 85049063686     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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