%0 Journal Article %1 Resnik199995 %A Resnik, P. %D 1999 %J Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research %K semantic similarity %P 95-130 %T Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy: An Information-Based Measure and its Application to Problems of Ambiguity in Natural Language %U http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0002016474&partnerID=40&md5=a9a56e449393875d47181c4aefadcfb7 %V 11 %X 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.

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