Concept Maps and Semantic Linkage

[ghost]

REF: https://github.com/sgsinclair/VoyantServer/issues/33

My initial github issue was in the wrong repo. I would like to continue the discussion here. @sgsinclair Where in the code do you recommend I start to explore?

I would like to be able to right click on the link between two word bubbles and perform a semantic lookup.

Multiple changes required. I will start to list these first. 1.) right mouse click handler 2.) semantic interop function: returns a string, requires two strings as input variables

What do you think?

Thank you, Rob

[sgsinclair]

Thanks Rob. What semantic lookup did you have in mind? WordNet? Adding the right-click and menu is fairly trivial, but I'm not sure what call you have in mind in the back-end or exactly what kind of data you'd want return. What would be an example for "text" and "analysis"?

[ghost]

WordNet is one possibility. We could diverge out the hypernym_paths() of "text" synsets and "analysis" synsets and seek intersection of convergence. I have been exploring NLTK with the similarity measure of wup_similarity, but this metric is not powerful enough to converge accurately. @sgsinclair What are your thoughts? Can you point me towards some journal DOI's with respect to polysemy and ontological approaches to semantic relations?

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