TY - GEN
T1 - Similarity between words computed by spreading activation on an English dictionary
AU - Kozima, Hideki
AU - Furugori, Teiji
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - This paper proposes a method for measuring semantic similarity between words as a new tool for text analysis. The similarity is measured on a semantic network constructed systematically from a subset of the English dictionary, LDOCE {Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English). Spreading activation on the network can directly compute the similarity between any two words in the Longman Defining Vocabulary, and indirectly the similarity of all the other words in LDOCE. The similarity represents the strength of lexical cohesion or semantic relation, and also provides valuable information about similarity and coherence of texts.
AB - This paper proposes a method for measuring semantic similarity between words as a new tool for text analysis. The similarity is measured on a semantic network constructed systematically from a subset of the English dictionary, LDOCE {Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English). Spreading activation on the network can directly compute the similarity between any two words in the Longman Defining Vocabulary, and indirectly the similarity of all the other words in LDOCE. The similarity represents the strength of lexical cohesion or semantic relation, and also provides valuable information about similarity and coherence of texts.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85022976439
T3 - 6th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 1993 - Proceedings
SP - 232
EP - 239
BT - 6th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 1993 - Proceedings
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 6th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 1993
Y2 - 21 April 1993 through 23 April 1993
ER -