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Using the SKOS Model for Standardizing Semantic Similarity and Relatedness Measures for Ontological Terminologies

Arockiasamy, Savarimuthu
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1250095881

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2009, Master of Computer Science, Miami University, Computer Science and Systems Analysis.
Semantic similarity and relatedness measures assess how alike two words are within a language and are playing an important role in the development of the Semantic Web. This thesis research advances the knowledge of existing similarity and relatedness measures. A generalized tool to experiment with semantic similarity and relatedness measures in a variety of ontological terminologies has been developed using the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), a proposed W3C standard for the Semantic Web. SKOS represents a terminology or domain vocabulary in a machine-understandable way. A flexible conversion tool is used to convert any vocabulary in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus and OWL ontologies into an extended SKOS ontological terminology. The generalized tool for measuring semantic similarity and relatedness is then used to analyze a wide variety of semantic similarity measures and new set-based relatedness measures on three major vocabularies of the UMLS Metathesaurus.
Valerie Cross (Advisor)
Michael Zmuda (Committee Member)
Keith Frikken (Committee Member)
Computer Science
Semantic similarity; Semantic relatedness; UMLS2SKOS

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  • Arockiasamy, S. (2009). Using the SKOS Model for Standardizing Semantic Similarity and Relatedness Measures for Ontological Terminologies [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1250095881

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Arockiasamy, Savarimuthu. Using the SKOS Model for Standardizing Semantic Similarity and Relatedness Measures for Ontological Terminologies. 2009. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1250095881.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Arockiasamy, Savarimuthu. "Using the SKOS Model for Standardizing Semantic Similarity and Relatedness Measures for Ontological Terminologies." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1250095881

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