Giuseppe Pirrò, Jérôme Euzenat, A semantic similarity framework exploiting multiple parts-of-speech, in: Proc. 9th international conference on ontologies, databases, and applications of semantics (ODBASE), Heraklion (GR), (Robert Meersman, Tharam Dillon, Pilar Herrero (eds), On the move to meaningful internet systems, Lecture notes in computer science 6427, 2010), pp1118-1125, 2010
Semantic similarity aims at establishing resemblance by interpreting the meaning of the objects being compared. The Semantic Web can benefit from semantic similarity in several ways: ontology alignment and merging, automatic ontology construction, semantic-search, to cite a few. Current approaches mostly focus on computing similarity between nouns. The aim of this paper is to define a framework to compute semantic similarity even for other grammar categories such as verbs, adverbs and adjectives. The framework has been implemented on top of WordNet. Extensive experiments confirmed the suitability of this approach in the task of solving English tests.