Abstract
Semantic similarity measures play vital roles in information retrieval, natural language processing and paraphrasing detection. With the growing plagiarisms cases in both commercial and research community, designing efficient tools and approaches for paraphrasing detection becomes crucial. This paper contrasts web-based approach related to analysis of snippets of the search engine with WordNet based measure. Several refinements of the web-based approach will be investigated and compared. Evaluations of the approaches with respect to Microsoft paraphrasing dataset will be performed and discussed
