CALCULATING SEMANTIC SIMILARITY BETWEEN FACTS

Sergey Afonin, Denis Golomazov

2010

Abstract

The present paper is devoted to the calculation of semantic similarity between facts or events. A fact is considered as a single natural sentence including three parts, “what happened”, “where” and “when”. Possible types of mismatches between facts are discussed and a function calculating the semantic similarity is proposed. Very preliminary experimental results are presented.

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in Harvard Style

Afonin S. and Golomazov D. (2010). CALCULATING SEMANTIC SIMILARITY BETWEEN FACTS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-28-7, pages 514-517. DOI: 10.5220/0003118705140517


in Bibtex Style

@conference{kdir10,
author={Sergey Afonin and Denis Golomazov},
title={CALCULATING SEMANTIC SIMILARITY BETWEEN FACTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={514-517},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003118705140517},
isbn={978-989-8425-28-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2010)
TI - CALCULATING SEMANTIC SIMILARITY BETWEEN FACTS
SN - 978-989-8425-28-7
AU - Afonin S.
AU - Golomazov D.
PY - 2010
SP - 514
EP - 517
DO - 10.5220/0003118705140517