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A method for computing lexical semantic distance using linear functionals
Journal of Web Semantics, 6 (2): 99--108 (2008)
DOI: {DOI} 10.1016/j.websem.2007.11.001
Аннотация
This paper presents a novel, knowledge-based method for measuring semantic similarity in support of applications aimed at organizing and retrieving relevant textual information. We show how a quantitative context may be established for what is essentially qualitative in nature by effecting a topological transformation of the lexicon into a metric space where distance is well-defined. We illustrate the technique with a simple example and report on promising experimental results with a significant word similarity problem. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
