Weighted Semantic Equivalence Relation

A Weighted Semantic Equivalence Relation is a semantic equivalence relation that is a semantic relationship.

• AKA: Semantic Coherence.
• See: Synonym Set, Semantically Opposite, Syntactic Relationship.

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References

2002

• (Yan et al., 2002) ⇒ Guanghao Yan, Wee Keong Ng, and Ee-Peng Lim. (2002). “Product Schema Integration for Electronic Commerce-A Synonym Comparison Approach.” In: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 14(3). doi:10.1109/TKDE.2002.1000344
  • QUOTE: We say two synonym sets are semantically coherent if their intersection is not empty. Here, note that semantic coherence does not mean semantic equivalence; it only implies close semantic relationship. The size of the interaction of two synonym sets is an indicator of the degree of proximity between them. We observe that semantically coherent synonyms sets probably refer conceptually to the “same attribute." ...

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