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AUTOMATED COMPUTATION OF SEMANTIC SIMILARITY OF PAIRS OF NAMED ENTITY PHRASES USING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT CORPORA AS BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE

  • US 20100042576A1
  • Filed: 10/07/2008
  • Published: 02/18/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for automatically providing an overall semantic similarity score value among named entities, comprising:

  • calculating for each pair in at least a selection of pairs of the named entities, a pair similarity score value according to a classifier using at least one electronic information source;

    calculating for each of the pairs in the selection of the pairs of the named entities a further pair similarity score value according to a further classifier using the at least one electronic information source; and

    calculating for each of the pairs in the selection of the pairs of the named entities an overall semantic similarity score value as a first function of the pair similarity score value and the further pair similarity score value corresponding thereto.

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