The Analysis and Improvement about Word Similarity Computing Method Based on HowNet
Hong Huang, Shu Jie Cui · Applied Mechanics and Materials · 2014
Word similarity computing is widely used in many fields, such as question answer,text clustering and so on. This paper synthesizes previous research achievement and proposes an improved word similarity computing method based on Hownet. The improvement is mainly shown in the following aspects: We make a difference between the antonym and common words ,and define the value range of sememe similarity as [-1, 1]; what’s more we not only consider the hyponymy, but the depth and density as we compute the sememe similarity, then makes the result more distinctly; besides we introduce the concepts of weak and supplement sememes, and lower the effect of the weak and supplement sememes by reducing the weight of weak and supplement as we compute the concept similarity. Experiment shows that the improved method makes the word similarity more practically.