A semantic kernel to exploit linguistic knowledge

  • Authors:
  • Roberto Basili;Marco Cammisa;Alessandro Moschitti

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Roma, Italy;Computer Science Department, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Roma, Italy;Computer Science Department, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Roma, Italy

  • Venue:
  • AI*IA'05 Proceedings of the 9th conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Improving accuracy in Information Retrieval tasks via semantic information is a complex problem characterized by three main aspects: the document representation model, the similarity estimation metric and the inductive algorithm. In this paper an original kernel function sensitive to external semantic knowledge is defined as a document similarity model. This semantic kernel was tested over a text categorization task, under critical learning conditions (i.e. poor training data). The results of cross-validation experiments suggest that the proposed kernel function can be used as a general model of document similarity for IR tasks.