Ontology-based Semantic Relatedness Measures: Applications and Calculation
Alexander F. Gelbukh · Research in Computing Science · 2012
We propose a procedure for measuring semantic relatedness of two words using an ontology, or semantic network dictionary.We discuss applications of this procedure in detail for lexical, syntactical, and coreference disambiguation in natural language processing as well as in machine translation.In addition, we use a simplified version of this procedure for automatic translation of the semantic network itself into other languages.This simplifies creation and maintenance of semantic network dictionaries for different languages, thus enabling the described methods for processing of texts in languages other than English.