“Computing With Words”- based Semantic Similarity Measure for Adjective Phrases
Bushra Siddique, M. M. Sufyan Beg · 2019 International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON) · 2019
This paper addresses the semantic similarity computation between adjective phrases like `more or less tall and not very short', `somewhat tall and not extremely tall', `very short and not very very tall' etc. The proposal finds application in scenarios where human perception based inputs are involved, such as in processing product reviews, feedbacks, survey responses, social media posts etc. To be able to adequately access the semantic spectrum, we employ the Computing with words (CWW) based technique in formulating the similarity measure. Particularly, we use the concepts of a linguistic variable and linguistic hedge. The implementation results report similarity scores that are in agreement with human reasoning.