Implementing WordNet Measures of Lexical Semantic Similarity in a Fuzzy Logic Programming System

This paper introduces techniques to integrate WordNet into a Fuzzy Logic Programming system. Since WordNet relates words but does not give graded information on the relation between them, we have implemented standard similarity measures and new directives allowing the proximity equations linking two...

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Autores: Pascual, Julián_Iranzo, Sáenz Pérez, Fernando
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/114018
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/114018
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Fuzzy Logic Programming
WordNet
Proximity Equations
System Implementation
Lenguajes de programación
1203.23 Lenguajes de Programación
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Sumario:This paper introduces techniques to integrate WordNet into a Fuzzy Logic Programming system. Since WordNet relates words but does not give graded information on the relation between them, we have implemented standard similarity measures and new directives allowing the proximity equations linking two words to be generated with an approximation degree. Proximity equations are the key syntactic structures which, in addition to a weak unification algorithm, make a flexible query-answering process possible in this kind of programming language. This addition widens the scope of Fuzzy Logic Programming, allowing certain forms of lexical reasoning, and reinforcing Natural Language Processing applications.