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Development and application of a metric on semantic nets

Rada, R., Mili, H., Bicknell, E., Blettner, M.·1989·IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
DOI 10.1109/21.24528
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Motivated by the properties of spreading activation and conceptual distance, the authors propose a metric, called distance, on the power set of nodes in a semantic net. Distance is the average minimum path length over all pairwise combinations of nodes between two subsets of nodes. Distance can be successfully used to assess the conceptual distance between sets of concepts when used on a semantic net of hierarchical relations. When other kinds of relationships, like 'cause', are used, distance must be amended but then can again be effective. The judgements of distance significantly correlate with the distance judgements that people make and help to determine whether one semantic net is better or worse than another. The authors focus on the mathematical characteristics of distance that presents novel cases and interpretations. Experiments in which distance is applied to pairs of concepts and to sets of concepts in a hierarchical knowledge base show the power of hierarchical relations in representing information about the conceptual distance between concepts.>

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Authors
Rada, R., Mili, H., Bicknell, E., & Blettner, M.
Venue
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Published
1989
Volume
19
Issue
1
Pages
17-30
ISSN
0018-9472 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1109/21.24528
OpenAlex
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1,824
References
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FWCI
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Language
en
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