Using People and WordNet to Measure Semantic Relatedness

Abstract

This technical report describes in some detail (1) the creation of a dataset for testing the degree of relatedness between concepts out of the data from Beigman Klebanov and Shamir's lexical cohesion experiment [3, 5, 6], and (2) a new measure of semantic relatedness based on WordNet. We welcome comments on this manuscript; however, please refrain from citing it, but rather the concise published version [4]. This report is intended to accompany the published paper with more thorough technical detail to enable replication of the method