A method for computing lexical semantic distance using linear functionals

  • Authors:
  • Del Jensen;Christophe Giraud-Carrier;Nathan Davis

  • Affiliations:
  • KJ Nova, Inc., Provo, UT, USA;Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA;Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA

  • Venue:
  • Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel, knowledge-based method for measuring semantic similarity in support of applications aimed at organizing and retrieving relevant textual information. We show how a quantitative context may be established for what is essentially qualitative in nature by effecting a topological transformation of the lexicon into a metric space where distance is well-defined. We illustrate the technique with a simple example and report on promising experimental results with a significant word similarity problem.