Viewpoint-Based Similarity Discernment on SNAP

摘要

This paper presents an algorithm for viewpoint- based similarity discernment of linguistic concepts on Semantic Network Array Processor (SNAP). The viewpoint-based similar- ity discernment plays a key role in retrieving similar propositions. This is useful for advanced knowledge processing areas such as analogical reasoning and case-based reasoning. The algorithm as- sumes that a knowledge base is constructed for SNAP, based on information acquired from the WordNet linguistic database. The algorithm identifies paths on the knowledge base between each given concept and a given viewpoint concept, then computes a similarity degree between the two concepts based on the number of nodes shared by the paths. A small scale knowledge base was constructed and an experiment was conducted on a SNAP simu- lator that demonstrated the feasibility of this algorithm. Because of SNAP's scalability, the algorithm is expected to work similarly on a large scale knowledge base.