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Semantic similarity in a taxonomy: An information-based measure and its application to problems of ambiguity in natural language

. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, (1999)

Abstract

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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