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Evaluating WordNet-based Measures of Lexical Semantic Relatedness

2006· article· en· 1,414 citations· W2136930489 on OpenAlex· 10.1162/coli.2006.32.1.13

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Abstract

The quantification of lexical semantic relatedness has many applications in NLP, and many different measures have been proposed. We evaluate five of these measures, all of which use WordNet as their central resource, by comparing their performance in detecting and correcting real-word spelling errors. An information-content-based measure proposed by Jiang and Conrath is found superior to those proposed by Hirst and St-Onge, Leacock and Chodorow, Lin, and Resnik. In addition, we explain why distributional similarity is not an adequate proxy for lexical semantic relatedness.

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Venue
Computational Linguistics
Topic
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Field
Computer Science
Canadian institutions
University of Toronto
Funders
University of TorontoUniversity of Pennsylvania
Keywords
WordNetComputer scienceSemantic similarityNatural language processingSpellingArtificial intelligenceLexical databaseProxy (statistics)Similarity (geometry)Information retrievalMeasure (data warehouse)LinguisticsMachine learningData mining
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