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WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
A word at a time: computing word relatedness using temporal semantic analysis
Computing the degree of semantic relatedness of words is a key functionality of many language applications such as search, clustering, and disambiguation. Previous approaches to c...
Kira Radinsky, Eugene Agichtein, Evgeniy Gabrilovi...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
A Study on the Semantic Relatedness of Query and Document Terms in Information Retrieval
The use of lexical semantic knowledge in information retrieval has been a field of active study for a long time. Collaborative knowledge bases like Wikipedia and Wiktionary, which...
Christof Müller, Iryna Gurevych
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Cross-lingual Semantic Relatedness Using Encyclopedic Knowledge
In this paper, we address the task of crosslingual semantic relatedness. We introduce a method that relies on the information extracted from Wikipedia, by exploiting the interlang...
Samer Hassan, Rada Mihalcea
NLE
2010
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13 years 10 months ago
Wisdom of crowds versus wisdom of linguists - measuring the semantic relatedness of words
In this article, we present a comprehensive study aimed at computing semantic relatedness of word pairs. We analyze the performance of a large number of semantic relatedness measu...
Torsten Zesch, Iryna Gurevych
JAIR
2010
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13 years 10 months ago
Text Relatedness Based on a Word Thesaurus
The computation of relatedness between two fragments of text in an automated manner requires taking into account a wide range of factors pertaining to the meaning the two fragment...
George Tsatsaronis, Iraklis Varlamis, Michalis Vaz...
JAIR
2007
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13 years 11 months ago
Knowledge Derived From Wikipedia For Computing Semantic Relatedness
Wikipedia provides a semantic network for computing semantic relatedness in a more structured fashion than a search engine and with more coverage than WordNet. We present experime...
Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Michael Strube
IJCAI
2003
14 years 1 months ago
Extended Gloss Overlaps as a Measure of Semantic Relatedness
This paper presents a new measure of semantic relatedness between concepts that is based on the number of shared words (overlaps) in their definitions (glosses). This measure is ...
Satanjeev Banerjee, Ted Pedersen
NAACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Creating a Knowledge Base from a Collaboratively Generated Encyclopedia
We present our work on using Wikipedia as a knowledge source for Natural Language Processing. We first describe our previous work on computing semantic relatedness from Wikipedia...
Simone Paolo Ponzetto
NAACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Comparing Wikipedia and German Wordnet by Evaluating Semantic Relatedness on Multiple Datasets
We evaluate semantic relatedness measures on different German datasets showing that their performance depends on: (i) the definition of relatedness that was underlying the constr...
Torsten Zesch, Iryna Gurevych, Max Mühlhä...
NLUCS
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Limits of Lexical Semantic Relatedness with Ontology-based Conceptual Vectors
Conceptual vectors can be used to represent thematic aspects of text segments, which allow for the computation of semantic relatedness. We study the behavior of conceptual vectors ...
Lim Lian Tze, Didier Schwab