Does wordnet directly present with similarity between synsets?

Question

I have come across several libraries that calculate the similarity between various synsets in Wordnet according to different algorithms. My basic question is whether Wordnet also provides a similarity measure between synsets, or is this similarity measure always calculated using some algorithm with a third party implementations?

Answer 1

No.

See: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wordnet/documentation/

It's a great tool, but it's supposed to be used as a database. The algorithms that calculate similarity are probably looking at the count and type of the various links between the synsets (there are many).