[Corpora-List] Call for Participation - Semantic SimilarityExperiment (fwd)

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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:52:47 -0400
From: John F. Sowa <sowa at bestweb.net>
To: Adam Kilgarriff <adam at lexmasterclass.com>
Cc: CORPORA at UIB.NO
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Call for Participation - Semantic
     SimilarityExperiment

Dear Adam and Nuno,

That is a reasonable statement:

  > Some of us are of the opinion that measures of semantic similarity
  > are best obtained through the proxy of distributional similarity.
  > While there is of course an argument that they are simply not the
  > same thing, distributional similarity has the decided advantage
  > that similarity scores are objective, inexpensive, and readily
  > available for the full lexicon.

But whenever anybody uses the word 'best', the obvious question to ask
is "Best for what purpose?"

Since there are many different definitions of and approaches to
semantics, there are at least as many ways of defining semantic
similarity.  Some definitions may be better for one purpose and
others may be better for others.

John Sowa


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