Methodological Review: Empirical distributional semantics: Methods and biomedical applications

Authors:
Trevor Cohen;Dominic Widdows
Affiliations:
Center for Decision Making and Cognition, Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Computing and Informatics, Arizona State University, 425 N, 5th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004-2157, USA;Google Pittsburgh, 4720 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Venue:
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Over the past 15 years, a range of methods have been developed that are able to learn human-like estimates of the semantic relatedness between terms from the way in which these terms are distributed in a corpus of unannotated natural language text. These methods have also been evaluated in a number of applications in the cognitive science, computational linguistics and the information retrieval literatures. In this paper, we review the available methodologies for derivation of semantic relatedness from free text, as well as their evaluation in a variety of biomedical and other applications. Recent methodological developments, and their applicability to several existing applications are also discussed.