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Word Semantic-Similarity (distance measures) webservices?

Is there any web-service that provides a word semantic-similarity measurements?

I'm aware of Disco, but I'd prefer a service with an ongoing growing base (and it would be most helpful if you had tried it in your projects).

I'm also aware of WordNet-based algorithms, but installing and managing it as part of the project resources brings heavy weight.

Solution

  • You could consider using the google index API, there is a sample application here - http://www.mechanicalcinderella.com/ uses it and has links to the original paper describing the technique. Source code here - http://complearn.org/index.html.

    i have not used it myself, other than for fun... but it seems pretty decent.