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Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy: An Information-Based Measure and its Application to Problems of Ambiguity in Natural Language
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This article presents a measure of semantic similarity in an IS-A taxonomy based on the notion of shared information content. Experimental evaluation against a benchmark set of human similarity judgments demonstrates that the measure performs better than the traditional edge-counting approach. The article presents algorithms that take advantage of taxonomic similarity in resolving syntactic and semantic ambiguity, along with experimental results demonstrating their effectiveness.
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- Authors
- Resnik, P.
- Venue
- Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
- Publisher
- AI Access Foundation
- Published
- 1999-07-01
- Volume
- 11
- Pages
- 95-130
- ISSN
- 1076-9757 (ISSN-L)
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- W1659833910
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- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 18.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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