Contextual correlates of synonymy
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An Information-Theoretic Definition of Similarity
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An Adapted Lesk Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation Using WordNet
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Verbs semantics and lexical selection
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Modeling filled pauses in medical dictations
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Finding predominant word senses in untagged text
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Classifying semantic relations in bioscience texts
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A semantic approach to IE pattern induction
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Robust textual inference via learning and abductive reasoning
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Using information content to evaluate semantic similarity in a taxonomy
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Using measures of semantic relatedness for word sense disambiguation
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Measuring concept relatedness using language models
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Semantically driven snippet selection for supporting focused web searches
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Methodological Review: Empirical distributional semantics: Methods and biomedical applications
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Generalized Mongue-Elkan Method for Approximate Text String Comparison
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Context-based literature digital collection search
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A semantic similarity metric combining features and intrinsic information content
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Harnessing different knowledge sources to measure semantic relatedness under a uniform model
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Measures of semantic similarity between concepts are widely used in Natural Language Processing. In this article, we show how six existing domain-independent measures can be adapted to the biomedical domain. These measures were originally based on WordNet, an English lexical database of concepts and relations. In this research, we adapt these measures to the SNOMED-CT^(R) ontology of medical concepts. The measures include two path-based measures, and three measures that augment path-based measures with information content statistics from corpora. We also derive a context vector measure based on medical corpora that can be used as a measure of semantic relatedness. These six measures are evaluated against a newly created test bed of 30 medical concept pairs scored by three physicians and nine medical coders. We find that the medical coders and physicians differ in their ratings, and that the context vector measure correlates most closely with the physicians, while the path-based measures and one of the information content measures correlates most closely with the medical coders. We conclude that there is a role both for more flexible measures of relatedness based on information derived from corpora, as well as for measures that rely on existing ontological structures.