The definition of lexical semantic similarity measures has been the subject of lots of works for many years. In this article, we focus more specifically on distributional semantic...
Background: Word sense disambiguation (WSD) algorithms attempt to select the proper sense of ambiguous terms in text. Resources like the UMLS provide a reference thesaurus to be u...
: WordNet (WN) is a lexical knowledge base, first developed for English and then adopted for several Western European languages, which was created as a machinereadable dictionary b...
Query recommendation suggests related queries for search engine users when they are not satisfied with the results of an initial input query, thus assisting users in improving sear...
In this paper we present a proposal to extend WordNet-like lexical databases by adding phrasets, i.e. sets of free combinations of words which are recurrently used to express a co...