[Corpora-List] CPAN release of WordNet::Similarity

From: ted pedersen (tpederse@d.umn.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 22:23:11 MET DST

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    We are pleased to announce the CPAN release of the WordNet::Similarity
    package. This is a significant upgrade to our previous Distance packages.

    You can find WordNet::Similarity (including README) at:

    http://search.cpan.org/author/SID/WordNet-Similarity-0.03/

    This package consists of Perl modules along with supporting Perl programs
    that implement the semantic similarity measures of Leacock-Chodorow
    (1998), Jiang-Conrath (1997), Resnik (1995), Lin (1998), Hirst-St Onge
    (1998) and Banerjee-Pedersen (2002). The package contains Perl modules
    designed as object classes with methods that take as input two word
    senses from WordNet. These methods can be embedded in any Perl program
    and will return the semantic similarity between the senses according to
    the requested measure.

    There are also support programs for generating information content values
    (Resnik 1995) for WordNet concepts from a variety of corpora, including
    the BNC, Penn Treebank, Semcor, or any raw text provided by a user. The
    information content values are required by the measures of Jiang-Conrath,
    Lin, and Resnik, and could also be useful in a wide range of WordNet based
    applications.

    The package also provides a simple command line interface that returns the
    similarity measure of two given words. This is very similar to our
    earlier version of the Distance package. A number of switches and options
    have been provided to enhance the output with trace data and other
    information.

    Please download and give Similarity a try! We anxiously await your
    feedback and suggestions.

    Thanks,
    Sid and Ted 

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