Alexander Budanitsky and Graeme Hirst,
Semantic distance in WordNet: An experimental,
application-oriented evaluation of five measures,
In Proceedings of the NAACL 2001 Workshop on WordNet and
Other Lexical Resources: Applications, Extensions and Customizations,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, June 3-4 2001.Five different proposed measures of similarity or semantic distance in WordNet were experimentally compared by examining their performance in a real-word spelling correction system. It was found that Jiang and Conrath's measure gave the best results overall. That of Hirst and St-Onge seriously over-related, that of Resnik seriously under-related, and those of Lin and of Leacock and Chodorow fell in between.