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Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy: An Information-Based Measure and its Application to Problems of Ambiguity in Natural Language

1999 · Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research · 2,094 citations · 3 from inside this corpus

Philip Resnik

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.

Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy: An Information-Based Measure and its Application to Pr… (1999)Semantic Similarity in a Taxo…WordNet: An electronic lexical database . Ed. by Christiane Fellbaum. Cambridge, MA: MIT … (2000)WordNet: An electronic lexica…A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing. (1975)A spreading-activation theory…Building a Large Annotated Corpus of English: The Penn Treebank (1993)Building a Large Annotated Co…Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database * (1990)Introduction to WordNet: An O…An Information-Theoretic Definition of Similarity (1998)An Information-Theoretic Defi…Verbs semantics and lexical selection (1994)Verbs semantics and lexical s…Class-based n -gram models of natural language (1992)Class-based n -gram models of…Development and application of a metric on semantic nets (1989)Development and application o…Automatic sense disambiguation using machine readable dictionaries (1986)Automatic sense disambiguatio…Using Information Content to Evaluate Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy (1995)Using Information Content to …Estimation of probabilities from sparse data for the language model component of a speech… (1987)Estimation of probabilities f…Automatic text processing (1988)Automatic text processingMathematical Foundations of Information Theory. (1959)Mathematical Foundations of I…Contextual correlates of synonymy (1965)Contextual correlates of syno…Computing semantic relatedness using Wikipedia-based explicit semantic analysis (2007)Computing semantic relatednes…Cheap and fast---but is it good? (2008)Cheap and fast---but is it go…Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach (2013)Personality, Gender, and Age …
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PaperYearCited
WordNet: An electronic lexical database . Ed. by Christiane Fellbaum. Cambridge, MA: MIT …200011,687
A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing.19758,166
Building a Large Annotated Corpus of English: The Penn Treebank19937,538
Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database *19904,213
An Information-Theoretic Definition of Similarity19983,673
Verbs semantics and lexical selection19943,120
Class-based n -gram models of natural language19922,894
Development and application of a metric on semantic nets19891,825
Automatic sense disambiguation using machine readable dictionaries19861,777
Using Information Content to Evaluate Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy19951,766
Estimation of probabilities from sparse data for the language model component of a speech…19871,657
Automatic text processing19881,583
Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory.19591,488
Contextual correlates of synonymy19651,450

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PaperYearCited
Computing semantic relatedness using Wikipedia-based explicit semantic analysis20071,988
Cheap and fast---but is it good?20081,928
Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach20131,753

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