Similarity (State of the art)

Attributional similarity

• attributional similarity = the degree to which two words are synonymous
• attributional similarity is also known as semantic relatedness and semantic association
• semantic similarity is a special case of attributional similarity in which the two words are nearby in a taxonomy
• semantic similarity is also known as taxonomical similarity
• state-of-the-art results for TOEFL Synonym Questions

Relational similarity

• relational similarity = the degree to which two relations are analogous
• state-of-the-art results for SAT Analogy Questions