The Word-Based Pyramid Method

Abstract

The comparison of human and machine generated descriptions is a problem confronting the document-understanding community and other researchers developing systems that output natural language. An investigator often wants to know how similar a machine description is to a human description. By assuming the message can be portrayed by a bag of words, it is possible to automate model formulation and then evaluate descriptions. Based on the study performed, the word-based pyramid method provides a useful tool for the quantification of verbal similarity.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA563308

Entities

People

  • Andrew A. Thompson

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automatic
  • Communities
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Data Sets
  • Dictionaries
  • English Language
  • False Alarms
  • Language
  • Military Research
  • Natural Languages
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Statistical Sampling
  • Vector Spaces
  • Warning Systems

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Systems Analysis and Design