2006 WikiRelate

• (Strube & Ponzetto, 2006) ⇒ Michael Strube, Simone P. Ponzetto. (2006). “WikiRelate! Computing Semantic Relatedness Using Wikipedia.” In: Proceedings of the Twenty-First Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006).

Subject Headings: Lexical Semantic Similarity Function, Wikipedia.

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• It contains an in-depth description of the methods for computing semantic relatedness in Wikipedia
• The WikiRelate! software described in this paper can be downloaded from http://www.eml-research.de/nlp.

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Abstract

Wikipedia provides a knowledge base for computing word relatedness in a more structured fashion than a search engine and with more coverage than WordNet. In this work we present experiments on using Wikipedia for computing semantic relatedness and compare it to WordNet on various benchmarking datasets. Existing relatedness measures perform better using Wikipedia than a baseline given by Google counts, and we show that Wikipedia outperforms WordNet when applied to the largest available dataset designed for that purpose. The best results on this dataset are obtained by integrating Google, WordNet and Wikipedia based measures. We also show that including Wikipedia improves the performance of an NLP application processing naturally occurring texts.

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2006 WikiRelate	Simone P. Ponzetto Michael Strube			WikiRelate! Computing Semantic Relatedness Using Wikipedia			http://dit.unitn.it/~p2p/RelatedWork/Matching/aaai06.pdf