Comparison of current semantic similarity methods in WordNet

Haisheng Li, Yun Tian, Ben Haobin Ye, Qiang Cai · 2010

Semantic similarity calculating has become a widespread topic in the field such as artificial intelligence, natural language processing, information retrieval and so on. WordNet is an English lexical database for synsets and relations. It is simple and effective to calculate the similarity between concepts in WordNet. Five semantic similarity methods based on WordNet are discussed in this paper. By analyzing and comparing those methods, the features of each methods are presented and experiment results are given finally.

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