Exploiting Wikipedia for Evaluating Semantic Relatedness Mechanisms

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Exploiting Wikipedia for Evaluating Semantic Relatedness Mechanisms
Authors
Felice Ferrara
Carlo Tasso
Publication date
2013
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-54347-0_12
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Exploiting Wikipedia for Evaluating Semantic Relatedness Mechanisms - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2013, written by Felice Ferrara and Carlo Tasso.

Overview

The semantic relatedness between two concepts is a measure that quantifies the extent to which two concepts are semantically related. In the area of digital libraries, several mechanisms based on semantic relatedness methods have been proposed. Visualization interfaces, information extraction mechanisms, and classification approaches are just some examples of mechanisms where semantic relatedness methods can play a significant role and were successfully integrated. Due to the growing interest of researchers in areas like Digital Libraries, Semantic Web, Information Retrieval, and NLP, various approaches have been proposed for automatically computing the semantic relatedness. However, despite the growing number of proposed approaches, there are still significant criticalities in evaluating the results returned by different methods. The limitations evaluation mechanisms prevent an effective evaluation and several works in the literature emphasize that the exploited approaches are rather inconsistent. In order to overcome this limitation, authors propose a new evaluation methodology where people provide feedback about the semantic relatedness between concepts explicitly defined in digital encyclopedias. In this paper, authors specifically exploit Wikipedia for generating a reliable dataset.