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CORR
1998
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
A Comparison of WordNet and Roget's Taxonomy for Measuring Semantic Similarity
This paper presents the results of using Roget's International Thesaurus as the taxonomy in a semantic similarity measurement task. Four similarity metrics were taken from th...
Michael McHale
ACSC
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Measuring Semantic Similarity in the Taxonomy of WordNet
This paper presents a new model to measure semantic similarity in the taxonomy of WordNet, using edgecounting techniques. We weigh up our model against a benchmark set by human si...
Dongqiang Yang, David M. W. Powers
RANLP
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Roget's thesaurus and semantic similarity
Roget’s Thesaurus has not been sufficiently appreciated in Natural Language Processing. We show that Roget's and WordNet are birds of a feather. In a few typical tests, we ...
Mario Jarmasz, Stan Szpakowicz
ACL
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Retrieval and Clustering of Similar Words
Bootstrapping semantics from text is one of the greatest challenges in natural language learning. We first define a word similarity measure based on the distributional pattern of ...
Dekang Lin
AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Assessing Student Paraphrases Using Lexical Semantics and Word Weighting
We present in this paper an approach to assessing student paraphrases in the intelligent tutoring system iSTART. The approach is based on measuring the semantic similarity between ...
Vasile Rus, Mihai C. Lintean, Arthur C. Graesser, ...