In this paper, we develop an autonomous assessment system based on the kernel combinations which are mixed by two kernel matrices from the WordNet and corpus. Many researchers have tried to integrate these two resources in many applications, to utilize diverse information extracted from each resource. However, since two resources have been represented in quite different ways, one resource has been secondary to another. To fully integrate two resources at the same level, we first transform the WordNet, which has a hierarchical structure, into a matrix structure. Concurrently, another matrix, which represents a co-occurrence of words in the collection of text documents, is constructed. We then build two initial latent semantic kernels from both matrices and merge them into a new single kernel matrix. When we merge two matrices, we split each initial matrix into independent columns and mix the columns with various methods. We acquire a few combined kernel matrices which show various performances in experiments. Compared to the basic vector space model, original kernel matrices, and the BLEU based method, the combined matrices improve the accuracy of assessment. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
