TY - JFULL AU - T. Slimani and B. Ben Yaghlane and K. Mellouli PY - 2008/12/ TI - A New Similarity Measure Based On Edge Counting T2 - International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering SP - 3850 EP - 3855 VL - 2 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10381 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 23, 2008 N2 - In the field of concepts, the measure of Wu and Palmer [1] has the advantage of being simple to implement and have good performances compared to the other similarity measures [2]. Nevertheless, the Wu and Palmer measure present the following disadvantage: in some situations, the similarity of two elements of an IS-A ontology contained in the neighborhood exceeds the similarity value of two elements contained in the same hierarchy. This situation is inadequate within the information retrieval framework. To overcome this problem, we propose a new similarity measure based on the Wu and Palmer measure. Our objective is to obtain realistic results for concepts not located in the same way. The obtained results show that compared to the Wu and Palmer approach, our measure presents a profit in terms of relevance and execution time. ER -