Computing Entity Semantic Similarity by Features Ranking

This article presents a novel approach to estimate semantic entity sim- ilarity using entity features available as Linked Data. The key idea is to exploit ranked lists of features, extracted from Linked Data sources, as a representation of the entities to be compared. The similarity between two entities is then esti- mated by comparing their ranked lists of features. The article describes experi- ments with museum data from DBpedia, with datasets from a LOD catalog, and with computer science conferences from the DBLP repository. The experiments demonstrate that entity similarity, computed using ranked lists of features, achieves better accuracy than state-of-the-art measures.