Evaluating WordNet-based Measures of Lexical Semantic Relatedness

Computational Linguistics - Tập 32 Số 1 - Trang 13-47 - 2006
Alexander Budanitsky1, Graeme Hirst1
1Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S [email protected]

Tóm tắt

The quantification of lexical semantic relatedness has many applications in NLP, and many different measures have been proposed. We evaluate five of these measures, all of which use WordNet as their central resource, by comparing their performance in detecting and correcting real-word spelling errors. An information-content-based measure proposed by Jiang and Conrath is found superior to those proposed by Hirst and St-Onge, Leacock and Chodorow, Lin, and Resnik. In addition, we explain why distributional similarity is not an adequate proxy for lexical semantic relatedness.

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