An Approach for Calculating Semantic Similarity between Words Using WordNet

This paper presents a new edge-counting based method using Word Net to compute the similarity. The method achieves a similarity that perfectly fits with human rating and effectively simulate the human tHought process that is people prefer to consider more differences when the semantic distance between two word is closer, and vice versa. At last, we weigh up our model against a benchmark set by human similarity judgment, and obtain a much improved result compared with other methods.