Semantic distance measures

被引:3
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作者
Cooper, MC [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Toulouse 3, IRIT, F-31062 Toulouse, France
关键词
information; semantic measures; meaning; metric spaces; fuzzy sets; information retrieval;
D O I
10.1111/0824-7935.00106
中图分类号
TP18 [人工智能理论];
学科分类号
081104 ; 0812 ; 0835 ; 1405 ;
摘要
The measurement of information is potentially as important to an information engineer as the measurement of physical quantities is to a civil or mechanical engineer. This article introduces semantic measures, representing the distance between the meanings of two messages. We demonstrate one possible application by giving a small-scale example in which a semantic measure was used to retrieve information by meaning rather than by word-occurrence. The distance function between the meanings of two messages can be generalized to cover fuzzy meanings. A possible application, the processing of free responses to opinion polls, is described.
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页码:79 / 94
页数:16
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