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JSW 2014 Vol.9(9): 2461-2466
doi: 10.4304/jsw.9.9.2461-2466

Semantic Similarity Computation Based on Multi-feature Combination using HowNet

Peiying Zhang 1 , Zhanshan Zhang 2 , Weishan Zhang 1 , Chunlei Wu 1

  • 1 China University of Petroleum (East China)/ College of computer and communication engineering, QingDao, China
  • 2 Tongji University / International School, Shanghai, China

Abstract

Semantic similarity between words is becoming a generic problems for many applications of computational linguistics and artificial intelligence. The difficulty lies in how to develop a computational method that is capable of generating satisfactory results close to how humans perceive. This paper proposes a semantic similarity approach that is based on multi-feature combination. One of the benchmarks is Miller and Charles’ list of 30 noun pairs which had been manually designated similarity measurements. We correlate our experiments with those computed by several other methods. Experiments on Chinese word pairs show that our approach is close to human similarity judgments.

Keywords

  • semantic similarity
  • semantic distance
jsw0909-30

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Peiying Zhang, Zhanshan Zhang, Weishan Zhang, and Chunlei Wu, "Semantic Similarity Computation Based on Multi-feature Combination using HowNet," Journal of Software, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 2461-2466, 2014. https://doi.org/ 10.4304/jsw.9.9.2461-2466

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Copyright © 2014 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).

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  • ISSN: 1796-217X (Online)

  • Abbreviated Title: J. Softw.

  • Frequency:  Biannually

  • APC: 500USD

  • DOI: 10.17706/JSW

  • Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Antanas Verikas

  • Executive Editor: Ms. Cecilia Xie

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