Edge dependent pathway scoring for calculating semantic similarity in ConceptNet

  • Authors:
  • Steve Spagnola;Carl Lagoze

  • Affiliations:
  • Cornell University;Cornell University

  • Venue:
  • IWCS '11 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Most techniques that calculate the relatedness between two concepts use a semantic network, such as Wikipedia, WordNet, or ConceptNet, to find the shortest intermediate pathway between two nodes. These techniques assume that a low number of edges on the shortest pathway indicates conceptual similarity. Although this technique has proven valid in conforming to psychological data, we test the usefulness of additional pathway variables in ConceptNet, such as edge type and user-rated score. Our results show strong evidence for the application of additional pathway variables in calculating semantic similarity.