WordWeb A Lexical Semantic Web Resource

📄 Project Abstract

The calculation of semantic similarity- between texts, phrases, or, at the lowest level, words, is a technology of increasing significance with a wide range of applications, in particular those related to the semantic web. Measurement of the semantic distance between word-pairs can later be used for these larger-scope applications such measurement of the semantic relatedness between two web pages. Semantic Similarity Vs. Semantic Relatedness 'Semantic distance', 'semantic similarity' and 'semantic relatedness' are three terms which are used variously throughout the literature, sometimes almost interchangeably but more usually with slight differences in meaning. Budanitsky and Hirst (2001, 2006)[1],[2] propose fairly clear definitions and distinctions between each term. 'Semantic similarity' refers to items 'related by virtue of their likeness'- for example, bank and trust company. This is what is referred to by Turney (2006)[3] as 'attributional similarity'. 'Semantic relatedness' howe...