A New Similarity Measure for Taxonomy Based on Edge Counting

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This paper introduces a new similarity measure based on edge counting in a taxonomy like WorldNet or Ontology.

• Measurement of similarity between text segments or concepts is very useful for many applications like information retrieval, ontology matching, text mining, and question answering and so on.
• Several measures have been developed for measuring similarity between two concepts: out of these we see that the measure given by Wu and Palmer [1] is simple, and gives good performance.
• Our measure is based on their measure but strengthens it.