Semantic Similarity Measure Based on Concreteness Degree of a Concept

Abstract:

Semantic similarity between concepts is widely used, but the measuring method is still a challenging task. We proposed a semantic similarity measuring method, using concreteness degree of a concept which is based on constructing process of ontology. Firstly, Concreteness degree of concept was defined for the concept by depth of the concept itself and its most specific descendant, then according to the Jaccards Coefficient the semantic similarity between concepts measured by the specified process of the two compared concepts and their co-specified process. Experiment result shows that the proposed method gained a higher correlation coefficient to human judgments than other compared measures.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 760-762)
• Pages: 852-856
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.760-762.852
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Wen Qing Li, Jia Feng Sun, Wen Qin Lu, Yong Le Zhang, Pu Zhao
• Keywords: Ontology, Semantic Similarity

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