Measuring Semantic Association in Domain Ontology

摘要

In domain ontology, Semantic Association(SA) is used to depict the correlation between two concepts. In this paper, we define Semantic Association Degree(SAD) for measuring SA in the domain ontology. We first present a method to measure SAD of two direct related concepts by evaluating the semantic relationship between them, and then give another method to measure SAD of two indirect related concepts though SAD of two directed neighboring concepts. A set of comparison experiments show the benefit of our approaches.