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In today's era of information explosion, more users are becoming more reliant upon recommender systems to have better advice, suggestions, or inspire them. The measure of the semantic relatedness or likeness between terms, words, or text…

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An interesting line of research in natural language processing (NLP) aims to incorporate linguistic typology to bridge linguistic diversity and assist the research of low-resource languages. While most works construct linguistic similarity…

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Ontologies provide a formal description of concepts and their relationships in a knowledge domain. The goal of ontology alignment is to identify semantically matching concepts and relationships across independently developed ontologies that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-07-08 Chau Do , Eric J. Pauwels

Evaluating the open-form textual responses generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) typically requires measuring the semantic similarity of the response to a (human generated) reference. However, there is evidence that current semantic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Qiyao Wei , Edward Morrell , Lea Goetz , Mihaela van der Schaar

Word similarity has many applications to social science and cultural analytics tasks like measuring meaning change over time and making sense of contested terms. Yet traditional similarity methods based on cosine similarity between word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Kaitlyn Zhou , Haishan Gao , Sarah Chen , Dan Edelstein , Dan Jurafsky , Chen Shani

We present the parametric method SemSimp aimed at measuring semantic similarity of digital resources. SemSimp is based on the notion of information content, and it leverages a reference ontology and taxonomic reasoning, encompassing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Antonio De Nicola , Anna Formica , Michele Missikoff , Elaheh Pourabbas , Francesco Taglino

The Semantic Web is becoming a large scale framework that enables data to be published, shared, and reused in the form of ontologies. The ontology which is considered as basic building block of semantic web consists of two layers including…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Seyedamin Pouriyeh , Mehdi Allahyari , Krys Kochut , Hamid Reza Arabnia

Information content (IC) based measures for finding semantic similarity is gaining preferences day by day. Semantics of concepts can be highly characterized by information theory. The conventional way for calculating IC is based on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Abhijit Adhikari , Shivang Singh , Deepjyoti Mondal , Biswanath Dutta , Animesh Dutta

Estimating the semantic similarity between text data is one of the challenging and open research problems in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The versatility of natural language makes it difficult to define rule-based methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Dhivya Chandrasekaran , Vijay Mago

Semantic text similarity plays an important role in software engineering tasks in which engineers are requested to clarify the semantics of descriptive labels (e.g., business terms, table column names) that are often consists of too short…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Toshihiro Takahashi , Takaaki Tateishi , Michiaki Tatsubori

Compositionality in language refers to how much the meaning of some phrase can be decomposed into the meaning of its constituents and the way these constituents are combined. Based on the premise that substitution by synonyms is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Christina Lioma , Niels Dalum Hansen

Accurately capturing individual differences in semantic networks is fundamental to advancing our mechanistic understanding of semantic memory. Past empirical attempts to construct individual-level semantic networks from behavioral paradigms…

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Blogs-Online digital diary like application on web 2.0 has opened new and easy way to voice opinion, thoughts, and like-dislike of every Internet user to the World. Blogosphere has no doubt the largest user-generated content repository full…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-01-11 Mehwish Aziz , Muhammad Rafi

Semantic similarity measures are a key component in natural language processing tasks such as document analysis, requirement matching, and user input interpretation. However, the performance of individual measures varies considerably across…

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Intuitively, the concept of similarity is the notion to measure an inexact matching between two entities of the same reference set. The notions of similarity and its close relative dissimilarity are widely used in many fields of Artificial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-12-13 Lluís A. Belanche

Audio captioning quality metrics which are typically borrowed from the machine translation and image captioning areas measure the degree of overlap between predicted tokens and gold reference tokens. In this work, we consider a metric…

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Quantifying the semantic similarity between database queries is a critical challenge with broad applications, ranging from query log analysis to automated educational assessment of SQL skills. Traditional methods often rely solely on…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Leo Köberlein , Dominik Probst , Richard Lenz

Meaning can be generated when information is related at a systemic level. Such a system can be an observer, but also a discourse, for example, operationalized as a set of documents. The measurement of semantics as similarity in patterns…

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The modern geographic information retrieval technology is based on quantitative models and methods. The semantic information in web documents and queries cannot be effectively represented, leading to information lost or misunderstanding so…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Yong Gao , Lei Liu , Xing Lin , Yu Liu

We introduce a conceptually simple and effective method to quantify the similarity between relations in knowledge bases. Specifically, our approach is based on the divergence between the conditional probability distributions over entity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Weize Chen , Hao Zhu , Xu Han , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun