Semantic Relatedness Measure Using Object Properties in an Ontology

  • Authors:
  • Laurent Mazuel;Nicolas Sabouret

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire Informatique de Paris 6 - LIP6, Paris, France 75016;Laboratoire Informatique de Paris 6 - LIP6, Paris, France 75016

  • Venue:
  • ISWC '08 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on The Semantic Web
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper presents a new semantic relatedness measure on ontologies which considers especially the object properties between the concepts. Our approach relies on two hypotheses. Firstly, using only concept hierarchy and object properties, only a few paths can be considered as "semantically corrects" and these paths obey to a given set of rules. Secondly, following a given edge in a path has a cost (represented as a weight), which depends on its type ($is\mbox{-}a$, $part\mbox{-}of$, etc.), its context in the ontology and its position in this path. We propose an evaluation of our measure on the lexical base WordNet using $part\mbox{-}of$ relation with two different benchmarks. We show that, in this context, our measure outperforms the classical semantic measures.