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Automatic Measurement of Semantic Similarity among Arabic Short Texts

by Fatma Elghannam
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Communications on Applied Electronics
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 6 - Number 2
Year of Publication: 2016
Authors: Fatma Elghannam
10.5120/cae2016652430

Fatma Elghannam . Automatic Measurement of Semantic Similarity among Arabic Short Texts. Communications on Applied Electronics. 6, 2 ( Nov 2016), 16-21. DOI=10.5120/cae2016652430

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author = { Fatma Elghannam },
title = { Automatic Measurement of Semantic Similarity among Arabic Short Texts },
journal = { Communications on Applied Electronics },
issue_date = { Nov 2016 },
volume = { 6 },
number = { 2 },
month = { Nov },
year = { 2016 },
issn = { 2394-4714 },
pages = { 16-21 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://www.caeaccess.org/archives/volume6/number2/675-2016652430/ },
doi = { 10.5120/cae2016652430 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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Abstract

Documents that are dealing with the same topic include normally many identical words. Accordingly, surface words co-occurrence similarity measures has been applied successfully to measure the similarity between these documents. However, the problem is not a trivial task when dealing with short texts that carry the same or close meaning but with different vocabularies. Toward solving this problem, researchers have been investigating methods for word analysis at the semantic level. We introduce a new method to measure the semantic similarity between short texts. In the proposed method, semantic distribution and lexical similarity measures are combined to determine the degree of similarity between two words. The similarity between two words is measured as the lexical similarity between the vectors of similar words extracted from corpus as a second order word vector. The proposed method was applied to measure the semantic similarity between Arabic short texts. The experiments performed showed that the best accuracy achieved by the proposed method was 97% compared to 93% recorded for the second order distribution similarity.

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Information Sciences

Keywords

Semantic similarity of words similarity of short texts corpus based similarity measure semantic distribution lexical similarity.

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