A novel similarity algorithm of extended topic map called ETMSC for multi-resource knowledge fusion is proposed to improve the drawbacks that the knowledge organization model based on metadata or traditional topic map can not represent knowledge multi-level and multi-granularity
and the low accuracy of existing similarity algorithms. Three principles of the correlation
levels corresponding
and the experimental determination in selecting threshold are presented. The algorithm combines the comprehensive information theory with the structure and semantic information of extended topic map. The syntactic matching
semantic matching
and pragmatic matching are comprehensively considered
in which not only the structural similarity of topic map elements are extended
but also the meaning and relevance in linguistic contexts are thoroughly taken into account. Topic map similarity criterions are related to a threshold
and the determination of the threshold is associated with the data sets. Experimental results and comparisons with the traditional algorithms that are purely based on the syntactic or semantic similarity show that the F-measure of ETMSC is improved by 9.2%-11.1%.
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