What is Semantic Similarity? Definition of Semantic Similarity: A concept whereby a set of documents or terms within term lists are assigned a metric based on the likeness of their meaning/semantic content. ( Wikipedia, 2012e ).
Ontologies tend to be found everywhere. They are viewed as the silver bullet for many applications, such as database integration, peer-to-peer systems, e-commerce, semantic web services, or social networks. However, in open or evolving systems, such as the semantic web, different parties would, in
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