%0 Conference Paper %1 citeulike:879855 %A Resnik, Philip %B IJCAI 1995 %D 1995 %K relatedness semantic taxonomy %P 448--453 %T Using Information Content to Evaluate Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy %U http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/resnik95using.html %X This paper presents a new measure of semantic similarity in an is-a taxonomy, based on the notion of information content. Experimental evaluation suggests that the measure performs encouragingly well (a correlation of r = 0.79 with a benchmark set of human similarity judgments, with an upper bound of r = 0.90 for human subjects performing the same task), and significantly better than the traditional edge counting approach (r = 0.66).

@inproceedings{citeulike:879855, abstract = {This paper presents a new measure of semantic similarity in an is-a taxonomy, based on the notion of information content. Experimental evaluation suggests that the measure performs encouragingly well (a correlation of r = 0.79 with a benchmark set of human similarity judgments, with an upper bound of r = 0.90 for human subjects performing the same task), and significantly better than the traditional edge counting approach (r = 0.66).}, added-at = {2008-02-10T02:19:38.000+0100}, author = {Resnik, Philip}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26bb9e231efe0e45fb5cf949f0be7b207/brightbyte}, booktitle = {IJCAI 1995}, citeulike-article-id = {879855}, description = {stuff from citeyoulike}, interhash = {746146003bcba4f1df57044178a1b9ac}, intrahash = {6bb9e231efe0e45fb5cf949f0be7b207}, keywords = {relatedness semantic taxonomy}, pages = {448--453}, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2009-01-23T09:58:50.000+0100}, title = {Using Information Content to Evaluate Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/resnik95using.html}, year = 1995 }