A semantic similarity method based on information content exploiting multiple ontologies

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by David Sánchez, Montserrat Batet
Abstract:
The quantification of the semantic similarity between terms is an important research area that configures a valuable tool for text understanding. Among the different paradigms used by related works to compute semantic similarity, in recent years, information theoretic approaches have shown promising results by computing the information content (IC) of concepts from the knowledge provided by ontologies. These approaches, however, are hampered by the coverage offered by the single input ontology. In this paper, we propose extending IC-based similarity measures by considering multiple ontologies in an integrated way. Several strategies are proposed according to which ontology the evaluated terms belong. Our proposal has been evaluated by means of a widely used benchmark of medical terms and MeSH and SNOMED CT as ontologies. Results show an improvement in the similarity assessment accuracy when multiple ontologies are considered.
Reference:
A semantic similarity method based on information content exploiting multiple ontologies (David Sánchez, Montserrat Batet), In Expert Systems with Applications, volume 40, 2013.
Bibtex Entry:
@article{Sanchez2013,
abstract = {The quantification of the semantic similarity between terms is an important research area that configures a valuable tool for text understanding. Among the different paradigms used by related works to compute semantic similarity, in recent years, information theoretic approaches have shown promising results by computing the information content (IC) of concepts from the knowledge provided by ontologies. These approaches, however, are hampered by the coverage offered by the single input ontology. In this paper, we propose extending IC-based similarity measures by considering multiple ontologies in an integrated way. Several strategies are proposed according to which ontology the evaluated terms belong. Our proposal has been evaluated by means of a widely used benchmark of medical terms and MeSH and SNOMED CT as ontologies. Results show an improvement in the similarity assessment accuracy when multiple ontologies are considered.},
author = {S\'{a}nchez, David and Batet, Montserrat},
journal = {Expert Systems with Applications},
keywords = {Information content,MeSH,Ontologies,SML-LIB-BIBLIO,SNOMED CT,Semantic similarity},
mendeley-tags = {SML-LIB-BIBLIO},
number = {4},
pages = {1393--1399},
title = {{A semantic similarity method based on information content exploiting multiple ontologies}},
url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095741741201010X},
volume = {40},
year = {2013}
}
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