@article{Resnik:99, title = {Semantic similarity in a taxonomy: An information-based measure and its application to problems of ambiguity in natural language}, author = {Philip Resnik}, journal = {Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research}, pages = {95--130}, volume = 11, year = 1999, url = {http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/jair/abstracts/resnik99a.html}, abstract = {This article presents a measure of semantic similarity in an IS-A taxonomy based on the notion of shared information content. Experimental evaluation against a benchmark set of human similarity judgments demonstrates that the measure performs better than the traditional edge-counting approach. The article presents algorithms that take advantage of taxonomic similarity in resolving syntactic and semantic ambiguity, along with experimental results demonstrating their effectiveness.}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2974ffd1fa9c1c16b8041b1ea2be377e4/seandalai}, keywords = {compounds bracketing wordnet 1999} }