A generic framework for comparing semantic similarities on a subsumption hierarchy

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 178, Issue , 2008, Pages 20-24

  Blanchard, Emmanuel ^a   Harzallah, Mounira ^a   Kuntz, Pascale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON; GENERIC FRAMEWORKS; HUMAN JUDGMENTS; ONTOLOGY'S; PROPERTY; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; WORDNET;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 85051939011     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-58603-891-5-20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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