TY - GEN
T1 - An association network for computing semantic relatedness
AU - Zhang, Keyang
AU - Zhu, Kenny Q.
AU - Hwang, Seung Won
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2015, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.
Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - To judge how much a pair of words (or texts) are semanti-cally related is a cognitive process. However, previous algorithms for computing semantic relatedness are largely based on co-occurrences within textual windows, and do not actively leverage cognitive human perceptions of relatedness. To bridge this perceptional gap, we propose to utilize free association as signals to capture such human perceptions. However, free association, being manually evaluated, has limited lexical coverage and is inherently sparse. We propose to expand lexical coverage and overcome sparseness by constructing an association network of terms and concepts that combines signals from free association norms and five types of cooccurrences extracted from the rich structures of Wikipedia. Our evaluation results validate that simple algorithms on this network give competitive results in computing semantic relatedness between words and between short texts.
AB - To judge how much a pair of words (or texts) are semanti-cally related is a cognitive process. However, previous algorithms for computing semantic relatedness are largely based on co-occurrences within textual windows, and do not actively leverage cognitive human perceptions of relatedness. To bridge this perceptional gap, we propose to utilize free association as signals to capture such human perceptions. However, free association, being manually evaluated, has limited lexical coverage and is inherently sparse. We propose to expand lexical coverage and overcome sparseness by constructing an association network of terms and concepts that combines signals from free association norms and five types of cooccurrences extracted from the rich structures of Wikipedia. Our evaluation results validate that simple algorithms on this network give competitive results in computing semantic relatedness between words and between short texts.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84959470477
T3 - Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
SP - 593
EP - 599
BT - Proceedings of the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2015 and the 27th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, IAAI 2015
PB - AI Access Foundation
T2 - 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2015 and the 27th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, IAAI 2015
Y2 - 25 January 2015 through 30 January 2015
ER -