SEMANTIC SIMILARITY SYSTEM    Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering 
Intelligent Systems Laboratory    TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE (TUC) 

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- The System
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 Methods Implemented

  • Edge Counting Methods
      Shortest Path: R. Rada, H. Mili, E. Bicknell, and M. Blettner. Development and Application of a Metric on Semantic Nets. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 19(1):17-30, January/February 1989.
      Weighted Links: R. Richardson, A. Smeaton, and J. Murphy. Using WordNet as a Knowledge Base for Measuring Semantic Similarity Between Words. Technical ReportWorking paper CA-1294, School of Computer Applications, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, 1994.
      Wu and Palmer: Z. Wu and M. Palmer. Verb Semantics and Lexical Selection. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Associations for Computational Linguistics (ACL'94), pages 133-138, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 1994.
      Leacock and Chodorow: Claudia Leacock and Martin Chodorow. Combining local context and WordNet similarity for word sense identification, in "Christianne Fellbaum. WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database. The MIT press, 1998".
      Li et al: Yuhua Li, Zuhair A. Bandar, and David McLean. An Approach for Measuring Semantic Similarity between Words Using Multiple Information Sources. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 15(4):871-882, July/August 2003
  • Information Content Methods
      Lin: D. Lin. Principle-Based Parsing Without Overgeneration. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'93), pages 112-120, Columbus, Ohio, 1993.
      Lord et al: P.W. Lord, R.D. Stevens, A. Brass, and C.A. Goble. Investigating Semantic Similarity Measures across the Gene Ontology: the Relationship between Sequence and Annotation. Bioinformatics, 19(10):1275-83, 2003
      Jiang et al: Jiang: J.J. Jiang and D.W. Conrath. Semantic Similarity Based on Corpus Statistics and Lexical Taxonomy. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Research in Computational Linguistic, Taiwan, 1998
      Resnik: O. Resnik. Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy: An Information-Based Measure and its Application to Problems of Ambiguity and Natural Language. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 11:95-130, 1999.
  • Feature Based Methods
      Tversky: A. Tversky. Features of Similarity. Psycological Review, 84(4):327-352, 1977
  • Hybrid Methods
      Rodriguez: M.A. Rodriguez and M.J. Egenhofer. Determining Semantic Similarity Among Entity Classes from Dirent Ontologies. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 15(2):442-456, March/April 2003
      X-Similarity: Euripides G.M. Petrakis, Giannis Varelas, Angelos Hliaoutakis, Paraskevi Raftopoulou, Design and Evaluation of Semantic Similarity Measures for Concepts Stemming from the Same or Different Ontologies, 4th Workshop on Multimedia Semantics (WMS'06), Chania, Crete, Greece, June 19-21, 2006, pp. 44-52. [pdf]. Click here for transparencies.

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Underlying Ontologies: WordNet 2.0, MeSH 2006
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