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SDM
2012
SIAM
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11 years 5 months ago
Legislative Prediction via Random Walks over a Heterogeneous Graph
In this article, we propose a random walk-based model to predict legislators’ votes on a set of bills. In particular, we first convert roll call data, i.e. the recorded votes a...
Jun Wang, Kush R. Varshney, Aleksandra Mojsilovic
KDD
2012
ACM
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11 years 5 months ago
Query-driven discovery of semantically similar substructures in heterogeneous networks
Heterogeneous information networks that contain multiple types of objects and links are ubiquitous in the real world, such as bibliographic networks, cyber-physical networks, and ...
Xiao Yu, Yizhou Sun, Peixiang Zhao, Jiawei Han
EMNLP
2011
12 years 3 months ago
Cross-Cutting Models of Lexical Semantics
Context-dependent word similarity can be measured over multiple cross-cutting dimensions. For example, lung and breath are similar thematically, while authoritative and superfici...
Joseph Reisinger, Raymond J. Mooney
COSIT
2011
Springer
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12 years 3 months ago
Analyzing the Spatial-Semantic Interaction of Points of Interest in Volunteered Geographic Information
With the increasing success and commercial integration of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), the focus shifts away from coverage to data quality and homogeneity. Within the ...
Christoph Mülligann, Krzysztof Janowicz, Mao ...
BICOB
2011
Springer
12 years 3 months ago
Similarity and Prioritization of Disease Proteins using Path Length Measure
Semantic similarity measures have been used successfully and extensively in the biomedical research with various applications. As the biomedical ontologies, which form the main gro...
Anurag Nagar, Hisham Al-Mubaid
AAAI
2011
12 years 3 months ago
Cross-Language Latent Relational Search: Mapping Knowledge across Languages
Latent relational search (LRS) is a novel approach for mapping knowledge across two domains. Given a source domain knowledge concerning the Moon, “The Moon is a satellite of the...
Nguyen Tuan Duc, Danushka Bollegala, Mitsuru Ishiz...
CORR
2011
Springer
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12 years 7 months ago
Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy: An Information-Based Measure and its Application to Problems of Ambiguity in Natural Language
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 hu...
Philip Resnik
COLING
2010
12 years 10 months ago
Automatic generation of inter-passage links based on semantic similarity
This paper investigates the use and the prediction potential of semantic similarity measures for automatic generation of links across different documents and passages. First, the ...
Petr Knoth, Jakub Novotny, Zdenek Zdráhal
COLING
2010
12 years 10 months ago
Automatic analysis of semantic similarity in comparable text through syntactic tree matching
We propose to analyse semantic similarity in comparable text by matching syntactic trees and labeling the alignments according to one of five semantic similarity relations. We pre...
Erwin Marsi, Emiel Krahmer
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 22 days ago
IntelliGO: a new vector-based semantic similarity measure including annotation origin
Background: The Gene Ontology (GO) is a well known controlled vocabulary describing the biological process, molecular function and cellular component aspects of gene annotation. I...
Sidahmed Benabderrahmane, Malika Smaïl-Tabbon...