A New Hybrid Improved Method for Measuring Concept Semantic Similarity in WordNet

A New Hybrid Improved Method for Measuring Concept Semantic Similarity in WordNet

Xiaogang Zhang, Shouqian Sun, and Kejun Zhang

College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Abstract: Computing semantic similarity between concepts is an important issue in natural language processing, artificial intelligence, information retrieval and knowledge management. The measure of computing concept similarity is a fundament of semantic computation. In this paper, we analyze typical semantic similarity measures and note Wu and Palmer’s measure which does not distinguish the similarities between nodes from a node to different nodes of the same level. Then, we synthesize the advantages of measure of path-based and IC-based, and propose a new hybrid method for measuring semantic similarity. By testing on a fragment of WordNet hierarchical tree, the results demonstrate the proposed method accurately distinguishes the similarities between nodes from a node to different nodes of the same level and overcome the shortcoming of the Wu and Palmer’s measure.

Keywords: Information content, Semantic similarity, WordNet taxonomy, Hyponym.

Received May 25, 2017; accepted April 25, 2018

https://doi.org/10.34028/iajit/17/4/1
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