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What is Least Common Subsumer (LCS)

Chapter 746
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
It is the most specific common ancestor of two concepts found in a given ontology. Semantically, it represents the commonality of the pair of concepts. For example, the LCS of moose and kangaroo in WordNet is mammal.
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A Review on Semantic Similarity
Montserrat Batet (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain) and David Sánchez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch746
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