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

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.

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