Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6857179 | Information Sciences | 2016 | 21 Pages |
Abstract
The soft cardinality function generalizes the concept of counting measure of the classic cardinality of sets. This function provides an intuitive measure of the amount of elements in a collection (i.e. a set or a bag) exploiting the similarities among them. Although soft cardinality was first proposed in an ad-hoc way, it has been successfully used in various tasks in the field of natural language processing. In this paper, a formal definition of soft cardinality is proposed together with an analysis of its boundaries, monotonicity property and a method for constructing similarity functions. Additionally, an empirical evaluation of the model was carried out using synthetic data.
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Authors
Sergio Jimenez, Fabio A. Gonzalez, Alexander Gelbukh,