WordNet::Similarity Publications

These publications describe the measures of similarity and relatedness found in WordNet::Similarity. Publications that describe the application of these measures to word sense disambiguation may be found on the SenseRelate Publications page.

2017

Duluth at SemEval-2017 Task 7: Puns Upon a Midnight Dreary, Lexical Semantics for the Weak and Weary (Pedersen) Appears in the Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2017), August 2017, pp. 407-411, Vancouver, BC.

2016

UMNDuluth at SemEval-2016 Task 14: WordNet's Missing Lemmas (Rusert and Pedersen) Appears in the Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2016), June 2016, pp. 1346-1350, San Diego, CA.
Duluth at SemEval 2016 Task 14: Extending Gloss Overlaps to Enrich Semantic Taxonomies (Pedersen) Appears in the Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2016), June 2016, pp. 1328-1331, San Diego, CA.

2013

Offspring from Reproduction Problems: What Replication Failure Teaches Us (Fokkens, van Erp, Postma, Pedersen, Vossen, and Freire) - Appears in the Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, August 4-9, 2013, pp. 1691-1701, Sofia, Bulgaria. [acceptance rate 26%, nominated for best paper award] ( presentation slides and related web site )

2012

Duluth: Measuring Degrees of Relational Similarity with the Gloss Vector Measure of Semantic Relatedness (Pedersen) - Appears in First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), June 6-7, 2012, pp. 497 - 501, Montreal, Canada.

2010

Information Content Measures of Semantic Similarity Perform Better Without Sense-Tagged Text (Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL HLT 2010), June 1-6, 2010, pp. 329-332, Los Angeles, CA [acceptance rate 35%]

2007

Measures of Semantic Similarity and Relatedness in the Biomedical Domain (Pedersen, Pakhomov, Patwardhan, and Chute), Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 40(3), 288-299, June 2007. [Journal Citation Reports Index Factor 2006: 2.346]
UMND1: Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Using Contextual Semantic Relatedness (Patwardhan, Banerjee, and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of SemEval-2007: 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations, June 23-24, 2007, pp. 390-393, Prague, Czech Republic.

2006

Using WordNet Based Context Vectors to Estimate the Semantic Relatedness of Concepts (Patwardhan and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the EACL 2006 Workshop Making Sense of Sense - Bringing Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics Together, pp. 1-8, April 4, 2006, Trento, Italy.

2005

SenseRelate::TargetWord - A Generalized Framework for Word Sense Disambiguation (Patwardhan, Banerjee, and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1692-1693, July 12, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA. (Intelligent Systems Demonstration)
SenseRelate::TargetWord - A Generalized Framework for Word Sense Disambiguation (Patwardhan, Banerjee, and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Demonstration and Interactive Poster Session of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 73-76, June 26, 2005, Ann Arbor, MI. [acceptance rate 55%]
Measures of Semantic Similarity and Relatedness in the Medical Domain (Pedersen, Pakhomov, and Patawardhan) - University of Minnesota Digital Technology Center Research Report DTC 2005/12, May. [This is a preliminary version of the JBI 2007 article].
Maximizing Semantic Relatedness to Perform Word Sense Disambiguation (Pedersen, Banerjee, and Patwardhan) - University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Research Report UMSI 2005/25, March.

2004

WordNet::Similarity - Measuring the Relatedness of Concepts (Pedersen, Patwardhan, and Michelizzi) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04), pp. 1024-1025, July 25-29, 2004, San Jose, CA (Intelligent Systems Demonstration)
WordNet::Similarity - Measuring the Relatedness of Concepts (Pedersen, Patwardhan, and Michelizzi) - Appears in the Proceedings of Fifth Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-04), pp. 38-41, May 3-5, 2004, Boston, MA. (Demonstration System)

2003

Extended Gloss Overlaps as a Measure of Semantic Relatedness (Banerjee and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 805-810, August 9-15, 2003, Acapulco, Mexico. [acceptance rate 21%]
Also available in postscript.
An implementation of the extended gloss overlap measure is available in the WordNet::Similarity package
Incorporating Dictionary and Corpus Information into a Context Vector Measure of Semantic Relatedness (Patwardhan) - Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, August, 2003.
Using Measures of Semantic Relatedness for Word Sense Disambiguation (Patwardhan, Banerjee and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, pp. 241-257, February 17-21, 2003, Mexico City. [acceptance rate 46%]
Also available in postscript

2002

An Adapted Lesk Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation using WordNet (Banerjee and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, pp. 136-145, February 17-23, 2002, Mexico City. [acceptance rate 52%]
Also available in postscript

By: Ted Pedersen - tpederse AT d umn edu