Similarity between words computed by spreading activation on an English dictionary
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- 1 January 1993
- conference paper
- Published by Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
- p. 232-239
- https://doi.org/10.3115/976744.976772
Abstract
This paper proposes a method for measuring semantic similarity between words as a new tool for text analysis. The similarity is measured on a semantic network constructed systematically from a subset of the English dictionary, LDOCE (, and indirectly the similarity of all the other words in LDOCE. The similarity represents the strength of lexical cohesion or semantic relation, and also provides valuable information about similarity and coherence of texts.Keywords
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