Wu-Palmer Similarity Measure

A Wu-Palmer Similarity Measure is a lexical semantic similarity measure that ...

• Context:
  • …
• Example(s):
  • as implemented in NLTK [1]
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Path Distance Similarity.
  • Leacock Chodorow Similarity.
  • Resnik Similarity.
  • Jiang-Conrath Similarity Measure.
  • Lin Similarity.

See: Semantic Similarity Measure, Semantic Similarity Score.

---

---

References

2011

• (NLTK - WordNetCorpusReader Module, 2011-Jun-19) ⇒ http://nltk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/api/nltk.corpus.reader.wordnet.WordNetCorpusReader-class.html
  • QUOTE: Wu-Palmer Similarity: Return a score denoting how similar two word senses are, based on the depth of the two senses in the taxonomy and that of their Least Common Subsumer (most specific ancestor node).

---