Featureless similarities for terms clustering using tree-traversing ants

  • Authors:
  • Wilson Wong;Wei Liu;Mohammed Bennamoun

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA;University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA;University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA

  • Venue:
  • PCAR '06 Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Practical cognitive agents and robots
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Besides being difficult to scale between different domains and to handle knowledge fluctuations, the results of terms clustering presented by existing ontology engineering systems are far from desirable. In this paper, we propose a new version of ant-based method for clustering terms known as Tree-Traversing Ants (TTA). With the help of the Normalized Google Distance (NGD) and n° of Wikipedia (n°W) as measures for similarity and distance between terms, we attempt to achieve an adaptable clustering method that is highly scalable across domains. Initial experiments with two datasets show promising results and demonstrated several advantages that are not simultaneously present in standard ant-based and other conventional clustering methods.