Lexical Semantics

Session-33

Dr. Subhra Rani Patra

SCOPE, VIT Chennai
Two classes of algorithms
Distributional Semantics
Thesaurus-based Word Similarity
Shortest path in the hierarchy
Leacock-Chodorow (L-C) Similarity
Shortest path in the hierarchy
Concept probability models
Example: Concept Count
Concept Probabilities
Information Content
Example: Information Content
Resnik Similarity
Example: Resnik Similarity
Lin Similarity
Example: Lin Similarity
Jiang-Conrath distance
Example: Jiang-Conrath distance
The Lesk algorithm
Problem in mapping words to wordnet senses