A semantic relatedness metric based on free link structure

  • Authors:
  • Sander Wubben;Antal van den Bosch

  • Affiliations:
  • Tilburg University;Tilburg University

  • Venue:
  • IWCS-8 '09 Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Computational Semantics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

While shortest paths in WordNet are known to correlate well with semantic similarity, an is-a hierarchy is less suited for estimating semantic relatedness. We demonstrate this by comparing two free scale networks (ConceptNet and Wikipedia) to WordNet. Using the Finkelstein-353 dataset we show that a shortest path metric run on Wikipedia attains a better correlation than WordNet-based metrics. Concept-Net attains a good correlation as well, but suffers from a low concept coverage.