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A new semantic relatedness measurement using WordNet features

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Computing semantic similarity/relatedness between concepts and words is an important issue of many research fields. Information theoretic approaches exploit the notion of Information Content (IC) that provides for a concept a better understanding of its semantics. In this paper, we present a complete IC metrics survey with a critical study. Then, we propose a new intrinsic IC computing method using taxonomical features extracted from an ontology for a particular concept. This approach quantifies the subgraph formed by the concept subsumers using the depth and the descendents count as taxonomical parameters. In a second part, we integrate this IC metric in a new parameterized multistrategy approach for measuring word semantic relatedness. This measure exploits the WordNet features such as the noun “is a” taxonomy, the nominalization relation allowing the use of verb “is a” taxonomy and the shared words (overlaps) in glosses. Our work has been evaluated and compared with related works using a wide set of benchmarks conceived for word semantic similarity/relatedness tasks. Obtained results show that our IC method and the new relatedness measure correlated better with human judgments than related works.

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  1. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh.

  2. http://wordnet.princeton.edu/.

  3. http://khnt.hit.uib.no/icame/manuals/brown/index.htm.

  4. http://www.geneontology.org/.

  5. http://www.technion.ac.il/~kirar/Datasets.html.

  6. The Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is an online labor market where workers are paid small amounts of money to complete small tasks. https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome.

  7. http://code.google.com/p/dkpro-similarity-asl/source/browse/trunk/de.tudarmstadt.ukp.similarity.experiments.wordpairs-asl/src/main/resources/datasets/wordpairs/en/yangPowers130.gold.pos.txt.

  8. Package downloadable via http://wn-similarity.sourceforge.net/.

  9. marimba.d.umn.edu/cgi-bin/similarity/similarity.cgi.

  10. http://wn-similarity.sourceforge.net/.

  11. JWNL WordNet Java API: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jwordnet.

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animal

athens

painting

miniature

statue

pakistan

repair

radical

bishops

con

examiner

jurisdiction

law

earth

poles

gasoline

stock

sabbath

stevenson

tone

piano

munich

constitution

acre

burned

homer

odyssey

perjury

soybean

assassination

killed

parish

clue

jerusalem

murdered

treaty

peace

art

mortality

explosive

builder

immunity

violation

composers

mozart

thailand

crowded

chaos

death

gossip

nuisance

paris

chef

satellite

space

villa

mayor

France

bridges

exile

church

sales

season

mussolini

italy

kansas

city

billion

campaigning

love

philip

mistake

error

plays

losses

landscape

mountain

actress

actor

republicans

challenge

ship

ballots

charge

sentence

albert

einstein

pakistan

radical

probability

hanging

rhodes

native

costume

ultimate

mud

soil

chile

plate

sydney

hancock

drink

alcohol

republic

candidate

  

Appendix C: YP73

brag

boast

refer

direct

enlarge

swell

divide

split

highlight

restore

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tap

build

construct

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hinder

lean

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terminate

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swear

think

hail

acclaim

twist

curl

split

crush

dissipate

disperse

accentuate

highlight

depict

recognize

impose

levy

position

situate

consume

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break

concoct

devise

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show

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furnish

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yield

make

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approve

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acknowledge

distribute

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spin

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deserve

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lean

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spin

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seize

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yield

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highlight

prolong

sustain

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correlate

levy

tap

knock

solve

figure out

refer

lean

flush

spin

    

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Hadj Taieb, M.A., Ben Aouicha, M. & Ben Hamadou, A. A new semantic relatedness measurement using WordNet features. Knowl Inf Syst 41, 467–497 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-013-0672-4

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