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Mapping Crisp Structural Semantic Similarity Measures to Fuzzy Context: A Generic Approach

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Ontology-based similarity measures have received much importance in recent years. In many real-world cases, the domain considered in the ontological similarity assessment consists of uncertainty or incomplete information. Such vagueness has led to the successful implementation of fuzzy ontology (FO)-based similarity measures. Despite various applications of FO-based similarity measures, limited methods have so far been proposed for this purpose. Accordingly, this paper presents a generic model for semantic similarity assessment based on a fuzzy ontology. The proposed approach relies on the broad literature of Crisp Ontology-based Structural Semantic Similarity Measures (CO-SSSM). It provides an approach for mapping CO-SSSMs to fuzzy context. Consequently, the proposed generic model can be applied to various CO-SSSMs to develop their corresponding FO-SSSMs. In this regard, as an empirical investigation, four of the common CO-SSSMs were selected, their equivalent FO-SSSMs were developed by means of the proposed approach, and the accuracy of their similarity assessment was compared with each other. The results show the power of FO-SSSMs in describing the relations between concepts and their superiority over CO-SSSMs.

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  2. For simplicity, abbreviations of concepts are used in equations, i.e., ML stands for Machine Learning, BI stands for Business Intelligence, CS stands for Computer Science, FOS stands for “Fields of Study”, Mng stands for Management, and Gr stands for Graphics.

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Safaeipour, H., Fazel Zarandi, M.H. & Bastani, S. Mapping Crisp Structural Semantic Similarity Measures to Fuzzy Context: A Generic Approach. Int. J. Fuzzy Syst. 22, 1224–1242 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40815-020-00833-w

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