Finding most informative common ancestor in cross-ontological semantic similarity assessment: An intrinsic information content-based approach

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Highlights:

• An algorithm for finding Cross-Ontology Semantic Similarity between concepts.

• Avoiding strict string matching for finding the most informative common ancestor.

• Intrinsic Information Theoretic Knowledge-based paradigm followed.

• Correlation Coefficient with human cognition has been measured.

• Information retrieval becomes more effective.

摘要

•An algorithm for finding Cross-Ontology Semantic Similarity between concepts.•Avoiding strict string matching for finding the most informative common ancestor.•Intrinsic Information Theoretic Knowledge-based paradigm followed.•Correlation Coefficient with human cognition has been measured.•Information retrieval becomes more effective.

论文关键词:Semantic similarity,Information theory,Knowledge based systems,Information retrieval,Ontology

论文评审过程:Received 13 July 2020, Revised 24 October 2021, Accepted 21 November 2021, Available online 4 December 2021, Version of Record 30 December 2021.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.116281