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  <Title>Measuring Semantic Relatedness Using People and WordNet</Title>
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5 Related Work
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We compare Gic to another WordNet-based measure that can handle cross-POS comparisons, proposed by Banerjee and Pedersen (2003). To compare word senses A and B, the algorithm compares not only their glosses, but also glosses of items standing in various WordNet relations with A and B. For example, it compares the gloss of A's meronym to that of B's hyponym. We use the default configuration of the measure in WordNet::Similarity-0.12 package (Pedersen et al., 2004), and, with a single exception, the measure performed below Gic; see BP in table 1.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> As mentioned before, taxonomy-based similarity measures cannot fully handle BS data. Table 2 uses nominal-only subsets of BS data and the MC nominal similarity dataset to show that (a) state-of-the-art WordNet-based similarity measure JC8 (Jiang and Conrath, 1997; Budanitsky and Hirst, 2006) does very poorly on the relatedness data, suggesting that nominal similarity and relatedness are rather different things; (b) Gic does better on average, and is more robust; (c) Gic yields on MC to gain performance on BS, whereas BP is no more inclined tosingle word which is relatively rarely used in glosses; (b) the multitude of low-IC items in many of the overlaps that tend to downplay the impact of the few higher-IC members of the overlap.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2">  lations of various measures with the human ratings.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Table 3 illustrates the relatedness vs. similarity distinction. Whereas, taxonomically speaking, son is more similar to man, as reflected in JC scores, people marked family and mother as much stronger anchors for son in BS-2; Gic follows suit.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4">  AApair Human Gic JC son - man 2 0.355 22.3 son - family 13 0.375 16.9 son - mother 16 0.370 20.1</Paragraph>
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