Be wary of what your computer reads: The effects of corpus selection on measuring semantic relatedness

Proceedings of ICCM 2007 - 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 279-283

  Lindsey, Robert ^a   Veksler, Vladislav D ^a   Grintsvayg, Alex ^a   Gray, Wayne D ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational linguistics; Corpus comparison; Measures of Semantic Relatedness; Natural language processing; NGD; Normalised Google Distance; PMI; Pointwise Mutual Information; Semantic similarity; Training corpus

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; TERNARY ALLOYS;

CORPUS SELECTIONS; INFORMATION SEARCH; MEASURES OF SEMANTIC RELATEDNESS; POINTWISE MUTUAL INFORMATION; SEMANTIC ASSOCIATIONS; SEMANTIC RELATEDNESS; TEXT COMPREHENSIONS; WORLD WIDE WEBS (WWW);

SEMANTICS;

EID: 85085555036     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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