Re: Corpora: Measures for the similarity between two sentences

From: Bill Fisher (william.fisher@nist.gov)
Date: Tue Nov 14 2000 - 16:51:46 MET

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    Constantin Orasan wrote:

    > Hello everybody.
    >
    > I would like to compute the similarity between two sentences. Could you
    > indicate some work which proposes measures for this? I am particularly
    > interested in methods which use, in addition to the words, some
    > linguistic information attached to the words (e.g. PoS tags, WordNet
    > senses, etc.).

      You can download from the NIST site
    (http://www.nist.gov/speech/tools/index.htm)
    some software called "aldistsm-1.2.tar.Z" which computes an alignment
    (edit)
    distance between two sentences, where the basic editing operations are
    changes
    in phonological features, including splits and merges on the word level.

     - Bill F.

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